Mrs. Humphry Ward
Mrs. Humphry Ward · English
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Mrs. Humphry Ward · English
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BOOK I CHAPTER I "I must be turning back. A dreary day for anyone coming fresh to these parts!" So saying, Mr. Helbeck stood still—both hands resting on his thick stick—while his gaze slowly swept the straight white road in front of him and the landscape to either side. Before him stretched the marsh lands of the Flent valley, a broad alluvial plain brought down by the rivers Flent and Greet on their way to the estuary and the sea. From the slight rising ground on which he stood
Mrs. Humphry Ward
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