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Winterborne's house had been pulled down On this account his face had

been seen but fitfully in Hintock; and he would probably have

disappeared froht business

connection with Melbury, on whose pre

apparatus, now that he had no place of his own to stow it in Co on his way to a hut beyond the here he now

slept, he noticed that the familiar brown-thatched pinion of his

paternal roof had vanished from its site, and that the walls were

levelled In present circuht have been called morbid, and when he had supped in the hut

aforesaid he made use of the spare hour before bedtiht and raround on

which he had first seen the day

He repeated this evening visit on several like occasions Even in the

gloom he could trace where the different rooms had stood; could mark

the shape of the kitchen chimney-corner, in which he had roasted apples

and potatoes in his boyhood, cast his bullets, and burned his initials

on articles that did and did not belong to hiarden had been, the oldest of theiven the bodily over the Chesil

Bank They were at present bent to still greater obliquity by the