[The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H.G. Wells]@TWC D-Link bookThe Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth CHAPTER THE FIRST 34/39
"Don't splash it about _this_ time," he said. "Splash it about, Sir ?" "Oh! _you_ know." She indicated knowledge by convulsive gestures. "You haven't told these people here? The parents, the squire and so on at the big house, the doctor, no one ?" Mrs.Skinner shook her head. "I wouldn't," said Redwood.... He went to the door of the barn and surveyed the world about him.
The door of the barn looked between the end of the cottage and some disused piggeries through a five-barred gate upon the highroad.
Beyond was a high, red brick-wall rich with ivy and wallflower and pennywort, and set along the top with broken glass.
Beyond the corner of the wall, a sunlit notice-board amidst green and yellow branches reared itself above the rich tones of the first fallen leaves and announced that "Trespassers in these Woods will be Prosecuted." The dark shadow of a gap in the hedge threw a stretch of barbed wire into relief. "Um," said Redwood, then in a deeper note, "Oom!" There came a clatter of horses and the sound of wheels, and Lady Wondershoot's greys came into view.
He marked the faces of coachman and footman as the equipage approached.
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