Sometimes a double line of these trees, like an avenue, would stretch across a field.

Often, as I have walked home in the dark after parish visiting, I have stood between the long rows of trees and listened to the wind sighing through their bare branches and looked up at the stars that "were tangled in them".

Then the dread mystery of war and fate and destruction would come over me.
It was a relief to think how comfortable and unconcerned the rooks were in their nests with their children about them in bed.

They had wings too wherewith to fly away and be at rest.
Cassel was used at that time by the French Army, so we were excluded from it unless we had a special permit.

It was a delightful old town, and from its commanding position on a rock has been used as a fortress more or less since the days of Julius Caesar.