Upon this high ground he gradually disappeared.
Thus she had beheld the pet animal purchased for her own use, in pure love of her, by one who had always been true, impressed to convey her husband away from her to the side of a new-found idol.

While she was musing on the vicissitudes of horses and wives, she discerned shapes moving up the valley towards her, quite near at hand, though till now hidden by the hedges.

Surely they were Giles Winterborne, with his two horses and cider-apparatus, conducted by Robert Creedle.

Up, upward they crept, a stray beam of the sun alighting every now and then like a star on the blades of the pomace-shovels, which had been converted to steel mirrors by the action of the malic acid.

She opened the gate when he came close, and the panting horses rested as they achieved the ascent.
"How do you do, Giles ?" said she, under a sudden impulse to be familiar with him.
He replied with much more reserve.