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CHAPTER VIII MR. WRATISLAW’S ADVENT
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AS the three men went home in the dusk they talked of the day. Lewis had been in a bad humour, but the company of his friends exorcised the imp1 of irritation2, and he felt only the mellow3 gloom of the evening and the sweet scents4 of the moor5. In such weather he had a trick of walking with his head high and his nostrils6 wide, sniffing7 the air like the wild ass8 of the desert with which the metaphorical9 George had erstwhile compared him. That young man meanwhile was occupied with his own reflections. His good nature had been victimized, he had been made to fetch and carry continually, and the result was that he had scarcely spoken a word to Miss Wishart. His plans thus early foiled, nothing remained but to draw the more fortunate Arthur, so in a conspirator’s aside he asked him his verdict. But Arthur refused to speak. “She is pretty and clever,” he said, “and excellent company.” And with this his lips were sealed, and his thoughts went off on his own concerns.
Lewis heard and smiled. The sun and wind of the hills beat in his pulses like wine. To have breathed all day the fragrance11 of heather and pines, to have gladdened the eye with an infinite distance and blue lines of mountain, was with this man to have drunk the cup of intoxicating12 youth. The cool gloaming did not chill; rather it was the high and solemn aftermath of the day’s harvesting. The faces of gracious women seemed blent with the
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