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'She'll be seen by Philip like as if she were a nightmare apparition of his undertaker's wraith, Captain Con said to Jane, when recommending his cousin to her charitable nature, after he had taken lodgings at a farmhouse near Mrs. Lackstraw's model farm Woodside on the hills. 'Barring the dress, as he added, some such impression of her frigid mournfulness might have struck a recumbent invalid.
The rabbits quietly feed on out in the field between the thistles and rushes that so often grow in woodside pastures, quietly hopping to their favourite places, utterly heedless how heavy the echoes may be in the hollows of the wooded hills. Till the rain comes they take no heed whatever, but then make for shelter.
Outside, over the swelling undulations of rich grass the sheep came back with close-cropped, ungainly bodies to a land that was yellow with buttercups. But when one looked again, their wool hung about them, and they were snatching at short turf that was covered at the woodside by a sprinkle of brown leaves. Then the sheep have gone, and the wood is black with February rain.
A second warning came from Mother Carey, "White birds go north." But the sunny woodside had become very pleasant, food was abundant, and the little white lady said, "Why should we go north when it is so much nicer right here?"
With every nerve, vein, and artery throbbing with excitement Ishmael hurried away from the house that contained Claudia. The solitary walk through the thick woods calmed his emotion before he reached Woodside. He found a tidy room, a tempting tea-table, and smiling faces waiting to welcome him.
They mumbled a bit together about to-morrow's doings, about the children, the work, the hard times and their troublesome landlord, the farmer of the woodside when there came a noise from the little bedroom and the door creaked softly.
They walked out again, and yet again, and Narcissus' first impressions deepened. He had his theories, too; and, surely, here was the woman! He was not in love at least, not with her, but with her fitness for his theory. They sat by a solitary woodside, beneath a great elm tree.
Yet I love to hear their wailing, their doleful responses, trilled along the woodside; reminding me sometimes of music and singing birds; as if it were the dark and tearful side of music, the regrets and sighs that would fain be sung.
Reuben and Hannah Gray continued to reside at Woodside, cultivating the Tanglewood estate and bringing up their two children. Alfred Burghe was cashiered for "conduct unworthy of an officer and a gentleman," as the charge against him on his trial set forth; and he and his brother have passed into forgetfulness.
Kendal said not a word, and Albinia, leaning on his arm, listened, as it were, to the stillness, or rather to the sounds that marked it the gurgling of the little streams let off into the water-courses in the meadows; the occasional plunge of the rat from the banks, the sounds from the town, softened by distance, and the far-off cawings of the rooks, which she could just see wheeling about as little black specks over the plantations of Woodside, or watching the swallows assembling for departure sitting in long ranks, like an ornament along the roof of a neighbouring barn.
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