He let them stand a long time to rest, while he sat there and talked with Madame M; auunster.

The prospect was beautiful in spite of there being nothing human within sight.

There was a wilderness of woods, and the gleam of a distant river, and a glimpse of half the hill-tops in Massachusetts.
The road had a wide, grassy margin, on the further side of which there flowed a deep, clear brook; there were wild flowers in the grass, and beside the brook lay the trunk of a fallen tree.

Acton waited a while; at last a rustic wayfarer came trudging along the road.

Acton asked him to hold the horses--a service he consented to render, as a friendly turn to a fellow-citizen.