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Beyond stream and meadows rise hills crested with Scotch fir, their slopes luxuriant with buck-wheat, maize, and other crops here and there the rich brown loam already ploughed up for autumn sowing. Well-dressed people, well-kept roads, neat houses, suggested peace and frugal plenty. What a contrast did the little village of Nant present to Le Vigan!
The sculptor fellow, Van Nant, who figures in it, was quite well-to-do at one time, I believe, but he ran through the greater part of his money, and a dishonest solicitor did him out of the rest. Miss Morrison herself never did have any, and, as I have told you, the Captain hasn't anything in the world but his pension; and it takes every shilling of that to keep them.
Truly it was impossible that any day could be more perfect towards its close. We reached Nant Bourant at twelve o'clock, or a little before, and Coutet having given his sanction to my wish to get on, we started again soon after one and reached the top of the Col de Bonhomme about five.
"Quite unexpectedly, and while he was preparing to spend a dull evening at home with Van Nant for the night was, as you must recollect, my dear fellow, a horribly wet and stormy one a message came to him from Miss Morrison asking him to come over to Wandsworth without delay, as a most amazing thing had happened.
"I knew that George Carboys had returned to that studio by the dry marks of muddy footprints, that were nothing like the shape of Van Nant's, which I found on the boards of the verandah and on the carpet under one of the windows; I knew, too, that it was Van Nant who had sent that pigeon. I did so for the purpose of looking at that fifth pigeon.
And lo! below him, through the thin pearly veil of cloud, a dim world of dark cliffs, blue lakes, grey mountains with their dark heads wrapped in cloud, and the straight vale of Nant Francon, magnified in mist, till it seemed to stretch for hundreds of leagues towards the rosy north-east dawning and the shining sea. With a wild shout he hurried onward. In five minutes he was clear of the cloud.
History of Twm O'r Nant Eagerness for Learning The First Interlude The Cruel Fighter Raising Wood The Luckless Hour Turnpike-Keeping Death in the Snow Tom's Great Feat The Muse a Friend Strength in Old Age Resurrection of the Dead. "I AM the first-born of my parents," says Thomas Edwards. "They were poor people and very ignorant.
Abdul ben Meerza, parting with nothing while he lived, after the manner of misers in general, left a will bequeathing something like £12,000 to George Carboys, and his executor communicated that fact to the supposed friend of both parties Mr. Maurice Van Nant; and exactly ten days ago, so his former solicitor informed me, Mr.
Of course, it was most inconsiderate of Carboys not to destroy that will as soon as you and he were engaged, but he knew that marriage invalidates any will a man may have made previously, and well, you can't suppose that he ever expected things to turn out as they have done. Besides, Van Nant would have seen that you got something to treasure as a remembrance.
Leaving him we went some way up the principal street; presently my wife turned into a shop, and I observing a little bookstall went up to it and began to inspect the books. They were chiefly in Welsh. Seeing a kind of chap book, which bore on its title-page the name of Twm O'r Nant, I took it up.
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