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On the fine days at this time of the year, and earlier, certain ephe way, the don Heath They were activities which, beside those of a town, a village, or even a farnationof the flesh of somnolence But here, away fro which eantry, and where any ine himself to be Adam without the least difficulty, they attracted the attention of every bird within eyeshot, every reptile not yet asleep, and set the surrounding rabbits curiously watching from hillocks at a safe distance

The perfor into a stack the furze faggots which Huoing fine days The stack was at the end of the dwelling, and theit were Hu on

It was a fine and quiet afternoon, about three o'clock; but the winter solstice having stealthily come on, the lowness of the sun caused the hour to see little here to remind an inhabitant that he must unlearn his summer experience of the sky as a dial In the course of many days and weeks sunrise had advanced its quarters from northeast to southeast, sunset had receded frodon had hardly heeded the change

Eustacia was indoors in the dining-roo a stone floor and a gaping chiered a moment here alone sounds of voices in conversation came to her ears directly down the chi, looked up the old irregular shaft, with its cavernous hollohere the smoke blundered about on its way to the square bit of sky at the top, frolare upon the tatters of soot draping the flue as seaweed drapes a rocky fissure

She remembered: the furze-stack was not far from the chirandfather joined in the conversation "That lad ought never to have left home His father's occupation would have suited him best, and the boy should have followed on I don't believe in these new moves in families My father was a sailor, so was I, and so should my son have been if I had had one"