Page 217 (1/2)

The h the copse

where Winterborne had worked, and into the heavier soil where the oaks

grew; past Great Willy, the largest oak in the wood, and thence towards

Nellcorowth, and popularly

supposed to be haunted by the spirits of the fratricides exorcised from

Hintock House

By this tith

But he had eaten nothing sincea hasty breakfast in London that

hurried hi; as a consequence, the old rurecognized who it was that had lent hian to speak in desultory sentences, Melbury still

supporting him

"I've come all the way from London to-day," said Fitzpiers "Ah,

that's the place to meet your equals I live at Hintock--worse, at

Little Hintock--and I am quite lost there There's not a man within

ten miles of Hintock who can comprehend me I tell you, Farmer

What's-your-naes; the poets and I are familiar friends; I used to read more in

ave that up

there's nobody can match me in the whole county of Wessex as a