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"This wood is as dark as a wolf's ether slowly along the solitary and broken approach, and had

just coht of the monastic front of the old roith ivy and creeping shrubs,

and twisted stalks of chimneys of heavy stone-work "And yet," continued

Lambourne, "it is fairly done on the part of Foster too for since he

chooses not visitors, it is right to keep his place in a fashion that

will invite few to trespass upon his privacy But had he been the

Anthony I once knew hi since becoer, and the ht than it now does at noon, while Foster played fast

and loose with the price, in so corner in the purlieus of

Whitefriars"

"Was he then such an unthrift?" asked Tressilian

"He was," answered Lambourne, "like the rest of us, no saint, and no

saver But what I liked worst of Tony was, that he loved to take his

pleasure by hied, as men say, every drop of water that

went past his own mill I have known him deal with such measures of wine

when he was alone, as I would not have ventured on with aid of the best

toper in Berkshire;--that, and some sway towards superstition, which he