She would have come a few months ago, and gladly: I'll write to her. Better talk to her, and persuade her. I'll do that too, but I must write to her first. So do then; but whatever you do, don't shilly-shally no longer.

The cottage hind / Hangs o'er th'enlivening blaze, and taleful there / Recounts his simple frolic.

keepers, horsing the deer

From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.