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The leaves over Hintock grew denser in their substance, and the

woodland seeree to a solid opaque body

of infinitely larger shape and ireen

shades, which hurt the coe of thearden dripped on his

seed-plots when it rained, pitting their surface all over as with

pock-ardens in such a place were no

good at all The two trees that had creaked all the winter left off

creaking, the whir of the night-jar, however, for a very

satisfactory continuation of uncanny music from that quarter Except

at mid-day the sun was not seen complete by the Hintock people, but

rather in the forh the leaves

Such an appearance it had on Midsurew later, and nine o'clock drew on, the irradiation of the

daytihostly nooks of

indistinctness Ie faces and figures shaped by the dying lights; the surfaces of

the holly-leaves would here and there shine like peeping eyes, while

such fragments of the sky as were visible between the trunks assuues This was before the