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Excerpt from The Winding Road Above the lip of the down, except the pine-crest, not a tree, not a bush, not so much as a whin nor a juniper, nothing but the bents which the winter snows had bleached, all combed one way in the wind, and washed with the luminous, pearly shimmer that belongs to the high downs, and to February beyond all the months. From the height, they said, you could on a clear day win a glimpse over five counties and the sea, but from even the garret windows little was visible but the swelling outline of the sheep-dotted hills, rising here and there to a coronet of pines or dimpled with scraps of low-growing coppices in the hollows, and over all the arch of the wide-brooding sky. Up here it was very still with the hush that follows the sunset; you could almost hear the sheep cropping the grass on the hillside, half a mile away. Overhead the sky was a lambent green, melting into d'affodil which deepened to red near the horizon, and in the midst of the flush floated a little clear, cold new moon. The February air was chill and dank, but Phenice was handy and did not heed it, though she was clad in a cotton blouse and had rolled her sleeves up to the elbow. This was her resting time; all day her tasks followed each other with hardly an interval, but now the cows were milked, and the lass, as her grand father called the servant maid, had carried the heavy pails into the dairy to empty into the broad pans, and meanwhile she could take a few minutes' breath ing space. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.