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Rh she said.

said he;

Sybil frowned.

she said.

said he;

Sybil was suddenly touched by his gentleness.

she said.

he said.

He stopped, and came close to her.

he said.

She made no reply to that, and they walked on in silence. Everywhere over the broad expanse of swelling downs, looking huge behind the heat-haze, and over the green restfulness of the water-meadows beneath them, even over the blue immensity of the sky, there was spread a sense of quiet and leisure. To Sybil, thinking of the after-lunch conversation, it seemed of value; to her at the moment this