[The Prelude to Adventure by Hugh Walpole]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prelude to Adventure CHAPTER IV 7/40
"You take _my_ word, Mr. Dune, sir, it was one of them there nasty tramps--always 'anging round they are, and Miss Annett was only yesterday speakin' to me of a ugly feller comin' round to their back door and askin' for bread, weren't you, Miss Annett ?" "I was, indeed, Mrs.Ridge." "And 'im with the nastiest 'eavy blue jaw you ever saw on a man, 'adn't 'e, Miss Annett ?" "He had, indeed, Mrs.Ridge." "Ah, I shouldn't wonder--nasty-sort-o'-looking feller.
And that Sannet Wood too--nasty lonely place with its old stones and all--comfortable ?--I _don't_ think." Olva made inquiries as to the stones. "Why, ever so old, they say--before Christ, I've 'eard.
Used to cut up 'uman flesh and eat it like the pore natives, and there's a ugly lookin' stone in that very wood where they did it too, or so I've 'eard.
Would you go along that way in the dark, Miss Annett ?" "Not much--I grant _you_, Mrs.Ridge." "Oh yes! not likely on a dark night, I _don't_ think!--and that pore Mr. Carfax--well, all I say is, I 'opes they catch 'im, that's all _I_ say.
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