[He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookHe Knew He Was Right CHAPTER XVI 6/18
But we are not sufficiently alive to the fact that copious draughts of fresh air,--of air fresh and unaccustomed,--will have precisely the same effect.
We do know that now and again it is very essential to "change the air;" but we generally consider that to do that with any chance of advantage, it is necessary to go far afield; and we think also that such change of the air is only needful when sickness of the body has come upon us, or when it threatens to come.
We are seldom aware that we may imbibe long potations of pleasure and healthy excitement without perhaps going out of our own county; that such potations are within a day's journey of most of us; and that they are to be had for half-a-crown a head, all expenses told.
Mrs.Trevelyan probably did not know that the cloud was lifted off her mind, and the load of her sorrow made light to her, by the special vigour of the air of the Moor; but she did know that she was enjoying herself, and that the world was pleasanter to her than it had been for months past. When they had sat upon their hillocks, and eaten their sandwiches,--regretting that the basket of provisions had not been bigger,--and had drunk their sherry and water out of the little horn mug which Mrs.Crocket had lent them, Nora started off across the moorland alone.
The horse had been left to be fed in Princetown, and they had walked back to a bush under which they had rashly left their basket of provender concealed.
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