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No place is its own, and that which is most stained with old tumults has the strongest fascination. So at Undern, whatever had happened there went on still; someone who had been there was there still. The lawns under the trees were mournful with old pain, or with vanished joys more pathetic than pain in their fleeting mimicry of immortality.
So they went by frith and fell, by wood and fair ways, till in two days' time they were come by undern within sight of the Castle of the Outer March, and entered into the street of the thorpe aforesaid; and they saw that there were no folk therein and at the house-doors save old carles and carlines scarce wayworthy, and little children who might not go afoot.
'If you lived at Undern you could wear them every day. 'If ifs were beans and bacon, there's few'd go clemmed, said Hazel. 'That green un's proper, like when the leaves come new, and little small roses and all. Put it on while I see what Vessons is doing. 'He's grumbling in the kitchen, seemingly, said Hazel. Vessons always grumbled.
In winter the yews and firs were like waving funeral plumes and mantled, headless goddesses; then the giant beeches would lash themselves to frenzy, and, stooping, would scourge the ice on Undern Pool and the cracked walls of the house, like beings drunken with the passion of cruelty. This was the second mood of Undern brutality.
It did seem a pity that, after so many centuries, so many matings and births, all his emblazoned and crested ancestors should have produced merely Reddin, a person exactly like themselves. Rain rustled on the window and the wind roared in the elms. The trees round Undern Pool stooped and swung in the attitude of mowers. Hazel knew that the Mountain would be even wilder to-night.
No earnest-money for us; let it be an arles-penny. And no breakfast-time, pray, but undern. You may also do a little word-formation of your own on occasion, and enact that a person good, at exposition shall be known as a clarifier, a sensible one as a cogitant, or a pantomime as a manuactor.
Her pleasures seemed to mean nothing when he was with her and before his loud laughter her wonderful faery-haunted days shrivelled. All she knew was that, now she lived at Undern, she never went out in the green dawn or came home wreathed in pansy and wild snapdragon. Reddin had imposed a deeper change on her than the change from maid to wife.
He was very angry, not only at her criticism, but at the difficulty of retort, since he supposed she was now 'missus. His friendliness for her had entirely gone, not, as would have seemed natural, since her last night's instalment at Undern, but since her marriage with Edward. He felt that she had 'gone back on him. He had taken her as a comrade, and now she had gone over to the enemy.
'Jack, said Hazel, 'she'm got the best right to be at Undern. Leave her stay! She'm a right nice 'ooman. Reddin gasped. Why would Hazel always do and say exactly the opposite to what he expected? 'But you're the last person he began. 'You're thinking she'd ought to be jealous of me, Jack Reddin, said Sally. 'But we'm neither of us jealous! I tell you straight! She's too good for you.
Ties deep as the tangled roots of the bindweed, strong as the great hawsers of the beeches that reached below the mud of Undern Pool, held him to it, the bondslave of a beauty he could not understand, a terror he could not express.
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