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Ramparts of rock protected them from the nor'-west gales, and purling rivulets hummed their lullaby. Here they pitched their tents, and in a short space of time ran up several log huts, the material for which was supplied in abundance by the surrounding forest.
In this way Clare persistently wooed her in undertones like that of the purling milk at the cow's side, at skimmings, at butter-makings, at cheese-makings, among broody poultry, and among farrowing pigs as no milkmaid was ever wooed before by such a man. Tess knew that she must break down.
Over the defile, in a ragged strip of sky, there were gleaming stars, while the rivulet was bubbling and purling, and from the obscurity of the forest there kept coming to our ears, now the cautious, rustling tread of some night animal, and now the mournful cry of an owl, until all nature seemed to be instinct with a secret vitality the sweet breath of which kept moving the heart to hunger insatiably for the beautiful.
Georgie took off her little cloth jacket and threw herself down on the grassy slope that, amidst a tangle of hemlock, edged the purling water.
"Miss Fanshawe," thought Harold, as he advanced with eyes that were unmistakably critical. "I must introduce myself," he said. "I am Harold." "The last of the Saxon kings?" "No; the first of the Purling princes. I know you quite well. Has my mother never mentioned me?" "I only arrived yesterday," the young lady replied, rather evading the question. "My mother must be delighted.
"Love is a Topick which I believe few are ignorant of; there requires no Aids of Learning, no general Conversation, no Application; a shady Grove and purling Stream are all Things that's necessary to give us an Idea of the tender Passion.
And then the sunrises we’re treated to, and the sunsets we’re crammed with, and the “golden clouds,” the “grand old woods,” the “distant dim blue mountains,” the “crystal lakes,” the “limpid purling brooks,” the “green-carpeted meadows,” and the whole similar lot of affected bosh, is enough to shake the faith of a practical man in nature as a natural institution, and to make him vote her an artificial humbug.
"Pills?" put in Harold, with a queer smile. His mother's face grew black instantly. "Harold, do not dare to speak in that way. My father's memory should be respected by my only son." Old Purling had made all his money by a certain chemical compound which had been adopted by the world at large as a panacea for every ill.
A purling brook at the left rolled its silvery current down a gentle declivity, and in front, for half a mile, was open country. "I have a great mind to call and inquire who lives here." said Melville. "Perhaps we can arrange to stay here all night." "That is a good plan, Mr. Melville." George Melville dismounted from his horse, and, approaching, tapped with the handle of his whip on the door.
It is about twenty feet wide at the base, and the position of the hearth and the royal bed are still to be seen, with "the finest purling stream that could be, running by the bed-side." How handy for the morning "tub"! In that remarkable collection of Stuart relics on exhibition in 1889 were many pathetic mementoes of Charles's wanderings in the Highlands.
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