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All over the countryside, away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light green of the new foliage.
High hills rose immediately behind, and at no great distance on each side; some of which were open downs, the others cultivated and woody.
The village of Barton was chiefly on one of these hills, and formed a pleasant view from the cottage windows.
The hills which surrounded the cottage terminated the valley in that direction; under another name, and in another course, it branched out again between two of the steepest of them.
The high downs which invited them from almost every window of the cottage to seek the exquisite enjoyment of air on their summits, were a happy alternative when the dirt of the valleys beneath shut up their superior beauties; and towards one of these hills did Marianne and Margaret one memorable morning direct their steps, attracted by the partial sunshine of a showery sky, and unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled rain of the two preceding days had occasioned.
The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencil and their book, in spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair, and that every threatening cloud would be drawn off from their hills; and the two girls set off together.
On this point Sir John could give more certain intelligence; and he told them that Mr. Willoughby had no property of his own in the country; that he resided there only while he was visiting the old lady at Allenham Court, to whom he was related, and whose possessions he was to inherit; adding, "Yes, yes, he is very well worth catching I can tell you, Miss Dashwood; he has a pretty little estate of his own in Somersetshire besides; and if I were you, I would not give him up to my younger sister, in spite of all this tumbling down hills.
On one side you look across the bowling-green, behind the house, to a beautiful hanging wood, and on the other you have a view of the church and village, and, beyond them, of those fine bold hills that we have so often admired.
If her sisters intended to walk on the downs, she directly stole away towards the lanes; if they talked of the valley, she was as speedy in climbing the hills, and could never be found when the others set off.
Look at those hills!
I shall call hills steep, which ought to be bold; surfaces strange and uncouth, which ought to be irregular and rugged; and distant objects out of sight, which ought only to be indistinct through the soft medium of a hazy atmosphere.
I call it a very fine country--the hills are steep, the woods seem full of fine timber, and the valley looks comfortable and snug--with rich meadows and several neat farm houses scattered here and there.
Marianne entered the house with a heart swelling with emotion from the consciousness of being only eighty miles from Barton, and not thirty from Combe Magna; and before she had been five minutes within its walls, while the others were busily helping Charlotte to show her child to the housekeeper, she quitted it again, stealing away through the winding shrubberies, now just beginning to be in beauty, to gain a distant eminence; where, from its Grecian temple, her eye, wandering over a wide tract of country to the south-east, could fondly rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.
The women of the West shade such eyes under their hands at sunset in their cabin doors, scanning those hills or those grassless, treeless plains for the home-coming of their men.
It ended in his making her take his arm, and then they stood and rocked together with the motion of the train, Tarvin steadying their position with outstretched legs, while they gazed up at the monster spires and sovereign hills of stone wavering and dizzying over their heads.
What the Three C.'s wanted for the end of their division and their last stop before the climb over the Pass was a place like Topaz, designed for them by nature, built in the centre of a plain, which the railroad could traverse at a level for five miles before attacking the hills.
It was not so that Tarvin saw it; and he would not have thanked the Easterner who should have taken refuge in praise of his snow-whitened hills, walling the valley in a monstrous circle.
The narrowing gorge was the first closing in of the hills, which, after widening again, gathered in the great cliffs of the caflon twenty miles below, to face each other across the chasm.
The passionless regard of the Oriental, borrowed from the purple hills behind his station, made him wonder for one profane faithless, and spiritless moment whether Topaz and Kate were worth all they were costing.
Between himself and a purple circle of hills lay fifteen miles of profitless, rolling ground, jagged with laterite rocks, and studded with unthrifty trees all given up to drought and dust, and all colorless as the sun-bleached locks of a child of the prairies.
In the State of Kot-Kumharsen, where the wild dacoits aboundAnd the Thakurs live in castles on the hills,Where the bunnia and bunjara in alternate streaks are foundAnd the Rajah cannot liquidate his bills;Where the Agent Sahib Bahadur shoots the black-buck for his larderFrom the tonga which he uses as machan,'Twas a white man from the west, came expressly to investigate the natural wealth of Hindustan.
Great gray cranes with scarlet heads stalked through the high grass of the swamps in the pockets of the hills.
At eventide a cold, dry wind would spring up, and the hills lying along the horizon took a hundred colors under the light of the sunset.
Then Tarvin realized the meaning of "the glorious East," for the hills were turned to heaps of ruby and amethyst, while between them the mists in the valleys were opal.
When he had become convinced that his eyes would never again be blessed with the sight of a white man, or his ears with the sound of intelligible speech, the cart rolled through a gorge between two hills, and stopped before the counterpart of the station at Rawut Junction.
"Be careful," said Mrs. Estes; "there is smallpox in the hills behind us, and these people have no notion of precautions."
The King looked along the chain of shining pools, the white, rush-tipped hillocks of the desert, and the far-distant line of low granite-topped hills, whence the Amet sprang.
What you want is a little dam up Gungra way.""Near the hills?""Yes."
As he trotted toward the missionary's house, he looked at the hopeless landscape with new interest, for any spur of the low hills, or any roof in the jumbled city, might contain his treasure.
He commanded a vast level plain flanked by hills of soft outline a plain that in the dim light seemed as level as the sea.
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