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Chapter 31
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On the way back from the sick mare1, Dick paused once to listen to the restless stamp of Mountain Lad and his fellows in the stallion barn. In the quiet air, from somewhere up the hills, came the ringing of a single bell from some grazing animal. A cat’s-paw of breeze fanned him with sudden balmy warmth. All the night was balmy with the faint and almost aromatic2 scent3 of ripening4 grain and drying grass. The stallion stamped again, and Dick, with a deep breath and realization5 that never had he more loved it all, looked up and circled the sky-line where the crests6 of the mountains blotted7 the field of stars.
“No, Cato,” he mused8 aloud. “One cannot agree with you. Man does not depart from life as from an inn. He departs as from a dwelling9, the one dwelling he will ever know. He departs ... nowhere. It is good night. For him the Noiseless One ... and the dark.”
He made as if to start, but once again the stamp of the stallions held him, and the hillside bell rang out. He drew a deep inhalation through his nostrils10 of the air of balm, and loved it, and loved the fair land of his devising.
“‘I looked into time and saw none of me there,’” he quoted, then capped it, smiling, with a second quotation11: “’She gat me nine great sons.... The other nine were daughters.’”
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corruption
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compassion
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judicious
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outspoken
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flirtatious
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primrose
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philandering
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justification
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loyalty
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lute
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