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The Green lay at the extree, and fro farther up the hill by the church, and the other winding gently doards the valley On the side of the Green that led towards the church, the broken line of thatched cottages was continued nearly to the churchyard gate; but on the opposite northwestern side, there was nothing to obstruct the view of gently swelling meadow, and wooded valley, and darkdistrict of Loarim outskirt of Stonyshire, overlooked by its barren hills as a pretty blooed, tall, swarthy brother; and in two or three hours' ride the traveller ion, intersected by lines of cold grey stone, for one where his road wound under the shelter of woods, or up swelling hills, rass and thick corn; and where at every turn he came upon so the slope, soolden ricks, so out from a pretty confusion of trees and thatch and dark-red tiles It was just such a picture as this last that Hayslope Church had entle slope leading to its pleasant uplands, and now from his station near the Green he had before him in one view nearly all the other typical features of this pleasant land High up against the horizon were the huge conical ion of corn and grass against the keen and hungry winds of the north; not distant enough to be clothed in purple reenish sides visibly specked with sheep, whose ht; wooed fro with no change in therilealory of the ripening summer sun And directly below the woods, divided by bright patches of pasture or furrowed crops, and not yet deepened into the unifor the warreen of the ash and lirew thicker, as if they had rolled down and hurried together froht take the better care of the tall mansion which lifted its parapets and sent its faint blue sue sweep of park and a broad glassy pool in front of thatslope of reen He saw instead a foreground which was just as lovely--the level sunlight lying like transparent gold arass and the tall red sorrel, and the white aerows It was thatwhettedlooks at the flower-sprinkled tresses of the meadows