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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Like enough; but the indictment counts for nothing in these days; it's the verdict that is everything, and that's settled beforehand." "True, true." "Did you know my neighbor John?" "I did; we were comrades years ago." With these words, Ralph rose from his unfinished breakfast and walked out of the house. What mischief of the same sort might even now be brewing at Wythburn in his absence?
In less time than that Wilfrey Lawson was riding hard towards Newcastle. Next morning after Rotha's struggle with Mrs. Garth at the bridge, the rumor passed through Wythburn that the plague was in the district. Since the advent of the new preachers the people had seen the dreaded scourge dangling from the sleeve of every stranger who came from the fearsome world without.
When, on their return journey, they had regained the summit of the Armboth Fell, and were about to descend past Blea Tarn towards Wythburn, they stood for a moment at that highest point and took a last glimpse of the mournful little company, with the one riderless horse in front, that wended its way slowly beyond Rosthwaite, along the banks of the winding Derwent, which looked to them now like a thin streak of blue in the deep valley below.
The smoke was rising lazily in blue coils from many a chimney as Sim turned his back on the Raise and retraced his steps to Wythburn. In the cottage by the smithy they stood together near the bridge the fire had been newly kindled. Beneath a huge kettle, swung from an unseen iron hook, the boughs crackled and puffed and gave out the odor of green wood.
It was apparent that if Sim had been in Winander he had left it on Sunday. Robbie reflected with vexation that it was now the evening of Monday, and that he was farther behind the man of whom he was in pursuit than he had been at starting from Wythburn. In no very amiable mood Robbie set out afresh just as darkness was coming on, and followed the road as far as the village of Staveley.
The silver service was the gift of Southey, and is inscribed with his name and crest. Southey was a vestryman of Wythburn Church for many years, and sometimes read the service there.
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