[A Changed Man and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy]@TWC D-Link bookA Changed Man and Other Tales CHAPTER X 141/214
On returning to the upper floor he lost his balance and fell downstairs.' The steward told the tale of the Down before the Vicar had spoken.
Mills had always intended to do so after the death of the Duke.
The consequences to himself he underwent cheerfully; but his life was not prolonged.
He died, a farmer at the Cape, when still somewhat under forty-nine years of age. The splendid Marlbury breeding flock is as renowned as ever, and, to the eye, seems the same in every particular that it was in earlier times; but the animals which composed it on the occasion of the events gathered from the Justice are divided by many ovine generations from its members now. Lambing Corner has long since ceased to be used for lambing purposes, though the name still lingers on as the appellation of the spot.
This abandonment of site may be partly owing to the removal of the high furze bushes which lent such convenient shelter at that date.
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