Gone to Earth

she said, but he pulled

you wan

in this g

anything in the place. And

on your

better change yo

old silver candlest

There's a glass in the

ll have

tically, her voice rising to a kind of chant, 'with a white cloth on table like s

, remarking to the cat in a sour lugubrious voice, as he always did when ruffl

e, his rough hair wet with snow, stood Reddin, watching her from the vantage-ground of the darkness! He saw her stand with head erect and bare white shoulders, smiling

ave a smothered exclamation. She had opened the window, pushing the snowy ivy a

is head into the

ught to keep it,' she said. 'And let me get back to Foxy quick

prayer in silence. Whet

none co

rather downcast. This was a str

the waters of Babylon

lus stops and goes back like a dog on a chain.' She sang it th

stared

you to sin

r was almost warm. 'Playing the harp nights, he makes your flesh creep; ah! and he makes the place all on a charm, like the

ell believe,'

swung

are you doing

essons' tone was dry

ur

o a ci

ou do that

the lady teach

us. He knew why

into the stable and stay th

azel had offended him, he had decide

in the house?' as

N

er, quite deferential. He had been awed by Hazel's request to the night and by her b

or flight. When he said, 'I want to stroke that silk dress,' and came towards

a mau

no att

wear I will. I'll-yes, I'll even marr

arrying in Hazel's eyes. It was a matter o

ed it out of his hand and slipped from his grasp like a

ing into the yard, 'quick! qui

fter the

stay alon

also was a devotee of his religion-celibacy; one wh

ing,' he chuckled. 'You can have my room. You shanna say Andrew Vessons

m through the back door a

the room he revealed when he proudly flung the door open. He h

He usually kept a few bones to pick at his ease. A goldfinch with a harassed air occupied a wooden cage in the win

er slep without me. He'll miss me. He unna sing for anybody else.' He always asserted this, and the bird always belied it by singing to Reddin

cious that he wa

ke,' he said. 'Now I'm going, afore that

of the woods and seeded dandelions. He was of the fellowship

s said in a sepulchral

white mice, defenceless as they, as little grateful to Vessons for his protec