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It was truth, and higher truth, he was always seeking. The sadness which coloured his deepest individuality, only one thing could ever remove the conscious presence of the Eternal. This is true of all sadness, but Ian knew it. He overtook Alister on his way to the barley-field.
Now the cat knew full well how fond the mouse was of the barley-field, and she used to keep watch amongst the tall stems, creeping stealthily about with her tail in the air and her green eyes glistening, expecting any moment to see the poor little mouse darting hastily along.
She led him away, up the slope, across the barley-field, now cut and harvested, to the great, swelling golden spaces of wheat. Far below, the engines and harvesters were humming. Here the wheat waved and rustled in the wind. It was as high as Lenore's head. "It's fine wheat," observed Dorn. "But the wheat of my desert hills was richer, more golden, and higher than this."
"A little moderate cultivation of the commons, to speak frankly," said Augustus Tomlinson, modestly, "might not be amiss; for it would decoy people into the belief that they might travel safely; and, after all, a hedge or a barley-field is as good for us as a barren heath, where we have no shelter if once pursued!"
Angelo accompanied the hunting party, but the corporal came in the carriage with me and Cicciu drove us round the barley-field to the Temple of Apollo to wait for the others.
Across the brook is a large barley-field, and down the valley are several other inclosures; all around, beyond these, is the dark, melancholy, illimitable forest. At one end of the house, which is of goodly size, stands a huge erection of wood, resembling a gallows, from which are suspended the bodies of three kangaroos.
At the same moment some one out in the yard said in a harsh jerky voice, "Where are we going to settle? Where?" And another answered, "In the miller's barley-field; ho! for the miller's field of barley." When George looked towards where this strange talk came he saw a gander flying at the head of a flock of geese.
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