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She
followed
the
figure
indicated
.
He
appeared
of
a
russet
hue
,
not
more
distinguishable
from
the
scene
around
him
than
the
green
caterpillar
from
the
leaf
it
feeds
on
.
His
progress
when
actually
walking
was
more
rapid
than
Mrs
.
Yeobright
’
s
;
but
she
was
enabled
to
keep
at
an
equable
distance
from
him
by
his
habit
of
stopping
whenever
he
came
to
a
brake
of
brambles
,
where
he
paused
awhile
.
On
coming
in
her
turn
to
each
of
these
spots
she
found
half
a
dozen
long
limp
brambles
which
he
had
cut
from
the
bush
during
his
halt
and
laid
out
straight
beside
the
path
.
They
were
evidently
intended
for
furze
-
faggot
bonds
which
he
meant
to
collect
on
his
return
.
The
silent
being
who
thus
occupied
himself
seemed
to
be
of
no
more
account
in
life
than
an
insect
.
He
appeared
as
a
mere
parasite
of
the
heath
,
fretting
its
surface
in
his
daily
labour
as
a
moth
frets
a
garment
,
entirely
engrossed
with
its
products
,
having
no
knowledge
of
anything
in
the
world
but
fern
,
furze
,
heath
,
lichens
,
and
moss
.
The
furze
-
cutter
was
so
absorbed
in
the
business
of
his
journey
that
he
never
turned
his
head
;
and
his
leather
-
legged
and
gauntleted
form
at
length
became
to
her
as
nothing
more
than
a
moving
handpost
to
show
her
the
way
.
Suddenly
she
was
attracted
to
his
individuality
by
observing
peculiarities
in
his
walk
.
It
was
a
gait
she
had
seen
somewhere
before
;
and
the
gait
revealed
the
man
to
her
,
as
the
gait
of
Ahimaaz
in
the
distant
plain
made
him
known
to
the
watchman
of
the
king
.
“
His
walk
is
exactly
as
my
husband
’
s
used
to
be
,
”
she
said
;
and
then
the
thought
burst
upon
her
that
the
furze
-
cutter
was
her
son
.
She
was
scarcely
able
to
familiarize
herself
with
this
strange
reality
.
She
had
been
told
that
Clym
was
in
the
habit
of
cutting
furze
,
but
she
had
supposed
that
he
occupied
himself
with
the
labour
only
at
odd
times
,
by
way
of
useful
pastime
;
yet
she
now
beheld
him
as
a
furze
-
cutter
and
nothing
more
—
wearing
the
regulation
dress
of
the
craft
,
and
thinking
the
regulation
thoughts
,
to
judge
by
his
motions
.
Planning
a
dozen
hasty
schemes
for
at
once
preserving
him
and
Eustacia
from
this
mode
of
life
,
she
throbbingly
followed
the
way
,
and
saw
him
enter
his
own
door
.
At
one
side
of
Clym
’
s
house
was
a
knoll
,
and
on
the
top
of
the
knoll
a
clump
of
fir
trees
so
highly
thrust
up
into
the
sky
that
their
foliage
from
a
distance
appeared
as
a
black
spot
in
the
air
above
the
crown
of
the
hill
.
On
reaching
this
place
Mrs
.
Yeobright
felt
distressingly
agitated
,
weary
,
and
unwell
.
She
ascended
,
and
sat
down
under
their
shade
to
recover
herself
,
and
to
consider
how
best
to
break
the
ground
with
Eustacia
,
so
as
not
to
irritate
a
woman
underneath
whose
apparent
indolence
lurked
passions
even
stronger
and
more
active
than
her
own
.
The
trees
beneath
which
she
sat
were
singularly
battered
,
rude
,
and
wild
,
and
for
a
few
minutes
Mrs
.
Yeobright
dismissed
thoughts
of
her
own
storm
-
broken
and
exhausted
state
to
contemplate
theirs
.
Not
a
bough
in
the
nine
trees
which
composed
the
group
but
was
splintered
,
lopped
,
and
distorted
by
the
fierce
weather
that
there
held
them
at
its
mercy
whenever
it
prevailed
.
Some
were
blasted
and
split
as
if
by
lightning
,
black
stains
as
from
fire
marking
their
sides
,
while
the
ground
at
their
feet
was
strewn
with
dead
fir
-
needles
and
heaps
of
cones
blown
down
in
the
gales
of
past
years
.
The
place
was
called
the
Devil
’
s
Bellows
,
and
it
was
only
necessary
to
come
there
on
a
March
or
November
night
to
discover
the
forcible
reasons
for
that
name
.
On
the
present
heated
afternoon
,
when
no
perceptible
wind
was
blowing
,
the
trees
kept
up
a
perpetual
moan
which
one
could
hardly
believe
to
be
caused
by
the
air
.
Here
she
sat
for
twenty
minutes
or
more
ere
she
could
summon
resolution
to
go
down
to
the
door
,
her
courage
being
lowered
to
zero
by
her
physical
lassitude
.
To
any
other
person
than
a
mother
it
might
have
seemed
a
little
humiliating
that
she
,
the
elder
of
the
two
women
,
should
be
the
first
to
make
advances
.
But
Mrs
.
Yeobright
had
well
considered
all
that
,
and
she
only
thought
how
best
to
make
her
visit
appear
to
Eustacia
not
abject
but
wise
.
From
her
elevated
position
the
exhausted
woman
could
perceive
the
roof
of
the
house
below
,
and
the
garden
and
the
whole
enclosure
of
the
little
domicile
.
And
now
,
at
the
moment
of
rising
,
she
saw
a
second
man
approaching
the
gate
.
His
manner
was
peculiar
,
hesitating
,
and
not
that
of
a
person
come
on
business
or
by
invitation
.
He
surveyed
the
house
with
interest
,
and
then
walked
round
and
scanned
the
outer
boundary
of
the
garden
,
as
one
might
have
done
had
it
been
the
birthplace
of
Shakespeare
,
the
prison
of
Mary
Stuart
,
or
the
Chateau
of
Hougomont
.
After
passing
round
and
again
reaching
the
gate
he
went
in
.
Mrs
