It is well always to be courteous to strangers and to give them information, but it is well also that the information should be false.' 'As his may have been,' I suggested.
'Nay, nay, the words came too glibly from his tongue.

So ho, Chloe, so ho! She is full of oats and would fain gallop, but it is so plaguy dark that we can scarce see where we are going.' We had been trotting down the broad high-road shimmering vaguely white in the gloom, with the shadowy trees dancing past us on either side, scarce outlined against the dark background of cloud.

We were now coming upon the eastern edge of the great plain, which extends forty miles one way and twenty the other, over the greater part of Wiltshire and past the boundaries of Somersetshire.

The main road to the West skirts this wilderness, but we had agreed to follow a less important track, which would lead us to our goal, though in a more tedious manner.

Its insignificance would, we hoped, prevent it from being guarded by the King's horse.