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Wogan went from the parlour and cliing at theand walked up the

glihostly white between diht, and not a feather of cloud

stained the perfection of the sky It curved above his head spangled

like a fair lady's fan, and unfathomably blue like Clementina's eyes

when her heart stirred in their depths He reached the little footway

and turned into the upward cleft of the hills He walked now into the

thick night of a close-grown clump of dwarf-oaks, which weaved so dense

a thatch above his head that he knocked against the boles The trees

thinned, he crossed here and there a dirove of larches in the drearassy lip of a mountain torrent which henceforth

kept hi withto catch his e of rock, and

here in a tiny waterfall, and splashed into a pellucid pool, and the

reverberating noise filled the dell with aits banks with athe

stars; beyond, it chafed hoarsely between narroalls; and again half a

on shallows and evaded the stones with a tinkling

laugh But Wogan was deaf to the voices; he her, the trees

ceased, he caher he

ascended, the more heavily he walked He stopped and washed his face and

hands clean of blood-stains in the stream Above him and not very far