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Excerpt from The Reproach of Annesley, Vol. 1 of 3
Silence and solitude reigned all around: a solitude invaded by the appearance of no living creatures save distant flocks of sheep dotted at large over upland pastures or grouped in wattled folds; a silence rather deepened than broken by the peculiar and by no means unmusical sound of the wind sweeping through the short pale-yellow bents which rose sparsely above the line rich down-turf.
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