[St. George and St. Michael by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link bookSt. George and St. Michael CHAPTER VI 5/7
Thou wilt not accuse me, Herbert, after I am gone to the rest, that I wasted thy substance, lad ?' 'So long as you still keep wherewithal to give, I shall be content, my lord.' 'Well, time will show.
I but tell thee what runneth in my mind, for thou and I, Herbert, have bosomed no secrets.
I will to bed.
We must go the round again to-morrow--with the sun to hold as a candle.' The next day the same party made a similar circuit three times--in the morning, at noon, and in the evening--that the full light might uncover what the shadows had hid, and that the shadows might show what a perpendicular light could not reveal.
There is all the difference as to discovery whether a thing is lying under the shadow of another, or casting one of its own. After this came a review of the outer fortifications--if, indeed, they were worthy of the name--enclosing the gardens, the old tilting yard, now used as a bowling-green, the home-farmyard, and other such outlying portions under the stewardship of sir Ralph Blackstone and the governorship of Charles Somerset, the earl's youngest son.
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