[The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Hermit of Far End CHAPTER V 6/14
Far End, they calls the 'ouse." "Far End," repeated Sara.
The name conveyed an odd sense of remoteness and inaccessibility.
It seemed peculiarly appropriate to a house built thus on the very edge of the mainland. Her eyes rested musingly on the bleak promontory.
It would be a fit abode, she thought, for some recluse, determined to eschew the society of his fellow-men; here he could dwell, solitary and apart, surrounded on three sides by the grey, dividing sea, and protected on the fourth by the steep untempting climb that lay betwixt the town and the lonely house on the cliff. "'Ere you are, miss.
This is Dr.Selwyn's." The voice of her Jehu roused her from her reflections to find that the cab had stopped in front of a white-painted wooden gate bearing the legend, "Sunnyside," painted in black letters across its topmost bar. "I'll take the keb round to the stable-yard, miss; it'll be more convenient-like for the luggage," added the man, with a mildly disapproving glance towards the narrow tiled path leading from the gate to the house-door. Sara nodded, and, having paid him his fare, made her way through the white gateway and along the path. There seemed a curious absence of life about the place.
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