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This satisfied the Earl, and he said further Fear not: the people I plant here will not trouble your wild animals they will merely work the soil. If they pass beyond the two-miles limit, do not allow them: they have no right there. At present we cannot conclude the arrangement, for I have nothing to pay you with. Let us leave the matter as it stands.
The two-miles walk to her beloved retreat seemed a matter of minutes only, so busy were her thoughts. Her mind was one luxurious confusion, through which travelled a ghostly little sprite, who kept tumbling her thoughts about, sneering, smirking, whispering "You dare not go to confession dare not go to confession.
She waved her mittened hand fretfully, and Iris, thankful to be released, flew with her good news to the trembling Miss Munnion. Early the next morning, almost unnoticed by the household, and carrying her own little black bag, she started on her two-miles walk to the station. Iris went with her as far as the lodge gates.
"Yes," said the doctor, rising and exchanging his dressing-gown for a coat, and drawing on his boots. "I will go as soon as my horse is ready." Orders were sent out to put the horse to the sleigh. This was quickly done, and the doctor, fully accoutered, walked to the door. "I shall be back as soon as I can, Mary," he said. "That won't be very soon. It is a good two-miles' ride."
The two-miles walk to her beloved retreat seemed a matter of minutes only, so busy were her thoughts. Her mind was one luxurious confusion, through which travelled a ghostly little sprite, who kept tumbling her thoughts about, sneering, smirking, whispering "You dare not go to confession dare not go to confession.
In farther advanced childhood, they had been quiet and decorous children, who could be all dressed and set up in chairs, like so many dolls, of a Sunday morning, patiently awaiting the stroke of the church-bell to be carried out and put into the wagon which took them over the two-miles' road to church. Possessed of such tranquil, orderly, and exemplary young offshoots, Mrs.
Gaunt forgave it as a worldly scoff. And Palmer, just always, thought, that, if Christ was just, He would remember it was not altogether Gaunt's fault, nor that of other bigots, if they had not education nor spiritual fresh meat. Creeds are not always "good providers." The two men had a two-miles' walk before them. They talked little, as they went.
Northwards, to their right, stretched the blue line of the Bay, where a single ship-of-war tacked lazily and kept a two-miles' offing. The smoke of the guns, drifting down on the land-breeze from the summit of Mount Olia, now hid her white sails, now lifted and revealed them in the late afternoon sunshine.
Of these, during the siege, 88 officers and 732 men were killed or wounded; but sickness and want of food had so far further reduced the numbers that on the day of relief there were of effectives only 403 officers and 9,761 men, and of these it was significantly added that "they are the only troops fit to do even a two-miles march."
They kept that road in splendid repair, despite the heavy wear and tear of the endless traffic which used it, and we blessed them many times. There was a two-miles stretch across shell-torn, muddy country just behind the fighting line.
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