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The building on the left of the enclosure was a long-backed erection,

now used for spar-, and copse-ware

on-sheds where Marty had

deposited her spars

Here Winterborne had reirl's abrupt departure, to see

that the wagon-loads were properly made up Winterborne was connected

with the Melbury family in various ways In addition to the

senti been the

first Mrs Melbury's lover, Winterborne's aunt had rated with the brother of the timber-merchant many years before--an

alliance that was sufficient to place Winterborne, though the poorer,

on a footing of social inties

so secluded as this, inter

the inhabitants, and there were hardly two houses in Little Hintock

unrelated by some matrimonial tie or other

For this reason a curious kind of partnership existed between Melbury

and the younger man--a partnership based upon an unwritten code, by

which each acted in the way he thought fair towards the other, on a

give-and-take principle Melbury, with his tiht of his labor ca

Winterborne was in the apple and cider trade, and his requiree and other work caons, and in soan to fall; he, in return, lending his assistance to Melbury in the

busiest wood-cutting season, as now

Before he had left the shed a boy came from the house to ask him to

remain till Mr Melbury had seen him Winterborne thereupon crossed

over to the spar-house where two or threespar-an, ularly, and when it