A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. Blackmore]@TWC D-Link book A Romance of Exmoor 11/13 Gwenny ate them without delay, and then was ready to eat the basket and the ware that contained them. I brought her home with me, so far as this can be a home, and she made herself my sole attendant, without so much as asking me. She has beaten two or three other girls, who used to wait upon me, until they are afraid to come near the house of my grandfather. She seems to have no kind of fear even of our roughest men; and yet she looks with reverence and awe upon the Counsellor. As for the wickedness, and theft, and revelry around her, she says it is no concern of hers, and they know their own business best. |