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Charles, is fertile and full of very fine trees of the same nature and kind as in France, such as oaks, elms, plum-trees, yews, cedars, vines, hawthorns which bear fruit as large as damsons and other trees; beneath them grows hemp as good as that of France."
On its banks were vineyards and cheerful villages; close to where I stood, in a granite basin with steep and precipitous sides, slumbered a deep, dark lagoon, shaded by black pines, cypresses and yews.
Indeed it might well have been the grave of buried Time, for what fitter monument could he have than a mutilated sun-dial, what better enclosure than such a hedge of yews, and more suitable light than that of the dying moon? Or was it but that the heart of the youth, receiving these things as into a concave mirror, reprojected them into space, all shadowy with its own ghostliness and gloom?
And taking Uncle Ulick by the arm he led him to the end of the garden, where the walk looked on the lake and bore some likeness to a roughly made terrace. Pausing where the black masses of the Florence yews, most funereal of trees, still sheltered their forms from the house, he stood silent. The mist moved slowly on the surface of the water and crawled about their feet.
Colonel John paused on the doorstep to draw on his boots, then he picked his way delicately to the leather-hung wicket that broke the hedge which served for a fence to the garden. On the right of the wicket a row of tall Florence yews, set within the hedge, screened the pleasaunce, such as it was, from the house.
A pool, right here at hand? Good luck, by Jove, the very first thing!" And, stopping where he stood, he gazed at it with keen, unalloyed pleasure. There, so near to the massive bulk of the tower that the vast shadow lay broadly across it, Stern had suddenly come upon as beautiful a little watercourse as ever bubbled forth under the yews of Arden or lapped the willows of Hesperides.
A train stopped. He took a ticket and went to Brighton. As they steamed along a high embankment, he found himself looking into a little suburban cemetery. The graves, the yews, the sharp church spire touching the range of the hills. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and the dread responsive rattle given back by the coffin lid.
He proceeded to pull up some of the young yews as a protest, and threw them uprooted on the ground. The man employed reported the matter to my co-warden, living near, who was very soon at my house. We decided to prosecute the offender, and obtained the Vicar's consent, he being the legal prosecutor.
What a garden to sing in, in the shade of the yews, with the garden-house behind to make the voice sound better than it is!" Mr. Buxton made a complimentary murmur. "Thank you," she said, "Master Anthony, you are wool-gathering." "Indeed not," he said, "but I was thinking where I had seen a lute. Ah! it is in the little west parlour." "A lute!" cried Mary.
If his body haunted London, his spirit had passed down on to that river where he had drifted once already, reconnoitring. A hundred times by day in fancy, and by night in dreams pulling himself along by the boughs, he stole down that dim backwater, till the dark yews and the white dove-cot came into view. For he thought now only of fulfilment. She was wasting cruelly away!
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