Afoot In England, By W.H. Hudson


























































































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Now when I look back on that walk I blame myself for having
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Now When I Look Back On That Walk I Blame Myself For Having Gone On My Way Without Trying To Find Out Something Of The History Of That Forsaken Home To Which The Lonely Old Road Had Led Me.

Those ruinous buildings once inhabited, so wrapped round and hidden away by trees, have now a strange look in

Memory as if they had a story to tell, as if something intelligent had looked from the vacant windows as I stood staring at them and had said, We have waited these many years for you to come and listen to our story and you are come at last.

Something perhaps stirred in me in response to that greeting and message, but I failed to understand it, and after standing there awhile, oppressed by a sense of loneliness, I turned aside, and creeping and pushing through a mass and tangle of vegetation went on my way towards the coast.

Possibly that idea or fancy of a story to tell, a human tragedy, came to me only because of another singular experience I had that day when the afternoon sun had grown oppressively hot - another mystery of a desolate but not in this case uninhabited house. The two places somehow became associated together in my mind.

The place was a little farm-house standing some distance from the road, in a lonely spot out of sight of any other habitation, and I thought I would call and ask for a glass of milk, thinking that if things had a promising look on my arrival my modest glass of milk would perhaps expand to a sumptuous five-o'clock tea and my short rest to a long and pleasant one.

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