There isn't two you'd meet in the county this minute 'ud hold the same opinion about it.

Not but that any way the country people are on the side of Master Luke." I was silent for a few minutes, stroking Dido's silky head, letting her rippled ears fall through my fingers.

Her dim eyes were fixed on me with a terrible wistfulness, as though she longed to speak and could not.

I felt a great pity for the old dog.

What a sad lot is theirs, depending on our presence as they do for the light in their sky, to whom our slightest absence is the absence of death.
"Was nothing ever heard of him ?" I asked after that silence.
"Nothing.