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A scud of wind and rain hampered Prosper on his ride over Goltres

Heath The steady increase of both in volume and force kept him at

work all day; but towards dusk the wind dropped a little, the clouds

split and drifted in black shreds over a clear sky full of the yellow

evening light Just at the twilight he caed

with reeds, ild foi swiftly

over on their way to the nest At the far end of the lake, but yet in

the water, was a diaunt shell

it was, rather than a habitable place; its ere sightless

black; only in the towers you could see through them the pale sky

behind The wind ruffled the mere, little cold waves lapped in the

reeds; there was no other house in sight whichever way you turned In

all the dun waste of raw and cold it was Goltres or nothing for a

night's lodging

"Galors has been before ht Prosper "The place is a

skeleton, the husk of a house Well, there must be a corner left which