[Springhaven by R. D. Blackmore]@TWC D-Link bookSpringhaven CHAPTER XXVIII 7/17
It seems but yesterday; and I have a flower now which you gathered for me there.
It grew at a very giddy height upon the wall, full of cracks and places where the evening-star came through; but up you went, like a rocket or a race-horse; and what a fright I was in, until you came down safe! I think that must have made up my mind to have nobody except my Joshua." "Well, my dear, you might have done much worse.
But I happened to think of that way in, this morning, when you put up your elbow, as you made the tea, exactly as you used to do when I might come up there.
And that set me thinking of a quantity of things, and among them this plan which I resolved to carry out.
I took the trouble first to be sure that Caryl was down here for the day, under the roof of Widow Shanks; and then I set off by the road up the hill, for the stronghold of all the Carnes. Without further peril than the fight with the pony, and the strange apparition of Cheeseman about half a mile from the back entrance, I came to the copse where the violets used to be, and the sorrel, and the lords and ladies.
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