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"Now," said he, releasing his under lip from a hard bite, "just hand

ht it and found it

"Thank you; now make haste with the letter to Hay, and return as

fast as you can"

A touch of a spurred heel made his horse first start and rear, and

then bound away; the dog rushed in his traces; all three vanished,

"Like heath that, in the wilderness,

The hirls away"

I took up one for me: it WAS an incident of no moment, no roe one single hour of a

iven

it: I was pleased to have done soh the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I eary of

an existence all passive The new face, too, was like a new picture

introduced to the gallery ofthere: firstly, because it was , and stern I had it still

before me when I entered Hay, and slipped the letter into the post-

office; I saw it as I walked fast down-hill all the way home When

I came to the stile, I stopped a minute, looked round and listened,

with an idea that a horse's hoofs ain,