[Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookWestward Ho! CHAPTER V 30/36
No, I believe not.
Come along, and make the best of a bad matter.
The fellow is a mile ahead, and to the right, too." "He is going for Moorwinstow, then; but where is my cousin ?" "Behind us, I dare say.
We shall nab him at least." "Cary, promise me that if we do, you will keep out of sight, and let me manage him." "My boy, I only want Evan Morgans and Morgan Evans.
He is but the cat's paw, and we are after the cats themselves." And so they went on another dreary six miles, till the land trended downwards, showing dark glens and masses of woodland far below. "Now, then, straight to Chapel, and stop the foxes' earth? Or through the King's Park to Stow, and get out Sir Richard's hounds, hue and cry, and queen's warrant in proper form ?" "Let us see Sir Richard first; and whatsoever he decides about my uncle, I will endure as a loyal subject must." So they rode through the King's Park, while Sir Richard's colts came whinnying and staring round the intruders, and down through a rich woodland lane five hundred feet into the valley, till they could hear the brawling of the little trout-stream, and beyond, the everlasting thunder of the ocean surf. Down through warm woods, all fragrant with dying autumn flowers, leaving far above the keen Atlantic breeze, into one of those delicious Western combes, and so past the mill, and the little knot of flower-clad cottages.
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