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She had been a forester all her life. Deerleap, One Ash, the Wolves' Valley, the Place of the Withered Elm, the Charcoal-Burners', the Mossy Christ, the Birch- grove, the Brook under the Brow and a hundred more. She steered by these, with all foresters. What she did not remember, or did not know, was that Maulfry had also lived in Morgraunt and knew the ways by heart.
Malbank is your nearest habitation; Spenshaw, Heckaby, Dunsholt Thicket, Hartshold, Deerleap are forest names, not names of the necessities of men. You may wander a month if you choose, telling one green hollow from another; or you may go to Holy Thorn at Malbank, or endure unto Wanmouth and the sea.
"You may be near enough by to-morrow, if what I have learned be true." The girl's eyes grew larger and darker. "Are they going to hang me?" she asked. "Are you not a witch?" "It is said." "Your mother Mald is a witch eh?" "Yes, she is a witch." "And are not you? You know Deerleap eh?" "It is said that I do." "And you know what must be done to witches." "They will hang me, Dom Galors!
I am no witch, albeit I have seen witchcraft and the revelry of witches on Deerleap. And though I have seen evil also I am a maiden, my lord, and such as you would have your own sister to be before she were wed." But Prosper put her from him at an arm's-length. He was not yet satisfied. "What was thy meaning then," he asked, "to say that thou wouldst be that which thou wert not?"
Thus he found himself, after two days' aimless wandering and two nights' dreamless sleep, on the high ground by Deerleap, with the forest behind and the rolling purple fells stretched out before him, and at last a blue gauzy ribbon which he knew for the sea. Out of heart he turned and beat back to Thornyhold, this time to better purpose.
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