Excerpt from The Tender Conscience
Out in the orchard at Kimberdown there were only the happy sounds of the early morning; the birds, the harmony of little insects near at hand; and in the distance, from the stable, the clean jangle of pails. Down the slight hill beyond the older apple trees, stunted and overgrown with lichen and ivy, there stood three tall Scotch firs rising from a thicket of brambles. Here the low grass was full of violets and little flowers of a harder blue. Campions and primroses and ferns grew on a bank beneath the firs.
It was not until eight o"clock that the sunshine reached this place, for in that corner the orchard was bounded by a thick wall of trees. Then the gossamer was seen to hang the shadows with jewelled skeins, and amongst the grass the dewdrops sparkled for a while before they transpired in the fair heat of the May morning.
In the bank amongst the hartstongues there was a well, little used and covered by a slanting door; and Jimmy Guise came to it each sunny morning in his pyjamas with a big bucket.
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