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CHAPTER VII
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BERE REGIS AND THE ANCIENT FAMILY OF TURBERVILLE
We who have passed into the Upper Air
More than her sister Stars sweet Earth doth love us:
She holds our hearts: the Stars are high above us.
O Mother Earth! Stars are too far and rare!
Bere Regis, that "blinking little place" with a history extending back to Saxon times (identified by Doctor Stukeley with the Roman Ibernium), is a typical little Dorset town about seven miles to the north-west of Wareham. It makes a capital walk or ride from Dorchester, and it was this way I travelled. I left Dorchester by High Street East, ascending3 Yellowham Hill, the "Yalbury Hill" of Troy's affecting meeting with Fanny Robin4, leaving Troy Town to pass through Puddletown and Tolpuddle. Evening had fallen when I arrived at Bere Regis, and the rising wind and flying wrack6 of clouds above seemed to presage7 a wild night. I was just wondering whether, although it looked so threatening, I dared ride on to Wareham, when my eyes rested on the Royal Oak Inn, with its Elizabethan barns, mossed and mouldering8 red tiles and axe-hewn timbers.
"It is at such houses," I thought, "that men may stretch out weary legs and taste home-cured bacon (I heard the squeak9 of a pig in the outhouse), and such places are the homes of adventure. I will go in and call for ale and a bed."
So I walked straight into the courtyard, which backs upon the church, and found there a large man with considerable girth, a square, honest face and kindly10 eyes. He was wearing a cap, and wearing it in a fine rakish way too. His appearance gave me the impression that his wife had tossed the cap at him and failed to drop it on his head squarely, but had landed it in a lopsided manner, and then our friend had walked off without thinking anything more about it. He was singing a song to himself and staring at a pile of bundles of straw. He looked up and nodded good-humouredly.
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骑士; (中古时代的)武士( knight的名词复数 ); 骑士; 爵士; (国际象棋中)马 | |
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