On the banks by the side of the road there were primroses and violets, while there was yet a drift of last week's snow in the sheltered copses.
They found an inn by the side of the road.

To the back of it lay a belt of woods.

In front was a great stretch of cornfield and pasturage.

In the distance a church-spire and yet other woods.
There was no village in sight.

The village was, as a matter of fact, lying about its green and velvety common just a little way down the road.