I hear that you lost your life-holds by the death of South ?" "I did.

I lost in more ways than one." They had reached the top of Hintock Lane or Street, if it could be called such where three-quarters of the road-side consisted of copse and orchard.

One of the first houses to be passed was Melbury's.

A light was shining from a bedroom window facing lengthwise of the lane.
Winterborne glanced at it, and saw what was coming.

He had withheld an answer to the doctor's inquiry to hinder his knowledge of Grace; but, as he thought to himself, "who hath gathered the wind in his fists?
who hath bound the waters in a garment ?" he could not hinder what was doomed to arrive, and might just as well have been outspoken.