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The
reddleman
watched
his
form
as
it
diminished
to
a
speck
on
the
road
and
became
absorbed
in
the
thickening
films
of
night
.
He
then
took
some
hay
from
a
truss
which
was
slung
up
under
the
van
,
and
,
throwing
a
portion
of
it
in
front
of
the
horses
,
made
a
pad
of
the
rest
,
which
he
laid
on
the
ground
beside
his
vehicle
.
Upon
this
he
sat
down
,
leaning
his
back
against
the
wheel
.
From
the
interior
a
low
soft
breathing
came
to
his
ear
.
It
appeared
to
satisfy
him
,
and
he
musingly
surveyed
the
scene
,
as
if
considering
the
next
step
that
he
should
take
.
To
do
things
musingly
,
and
by
small
degrees
,
seemed
,
indeed
,
to
be
a
duty
in
the
Egdon
valleys
at
this
transitional
hour
,
for
there
was
that
in
the
condition
of
the
heath
itself
which
resembled
protracted
and
halting
dubiousness
.
It
was
the
quality
of
the
repose
appertaining
to
the
scene
.
This
was
not
the
repose
of
actual
stagnation
,
but
the
apparent
repose
of
incredible
slowness
.
A
condition
of
healthy
life
so
nearly
resembling
the
torpor
of
death
is
a
noticeable
thing
of
its
sort
;
to
exhibit
the
inertness
of
the
desert
,
and
at
the
same
time
to
be
exercising
powers
akin
to
those
of
the
meadow
,
and
even
of
the
forest
,
awakened
in
those
who
thought
of
it
the
attentiveness
usually
engendered
by
understatement
and
reserve
.
The
scene
before
the
reddleman
’
s
eyes
was
a
gradual
series
of
ascents
from
the
level
of
the
road
backward
into
the
heart
of
the
heath
.
It
embraced
hillocks
,
pits
,
ridges
,
acclivities
,
one
behind
the
other
,
till
all
was
finished
by
a
high
hill
cutting
against
the
still
light
sky
.
The
traveller
’
s
eye
hovered
about
these
things
for
a
time
,
and
finally
settled
upon
one
noteworthy
object
up
there
.
It
was
a
barrow
.
This
bossy
projection
of
earth
above
its
natural
level
occupied
the
loftiest
ground
of
the
loneliest
height
that
the
heath
contained
.
Although
from
the
vale
it
appeared
but
as
a
wart
on
an
Atlantean
brow
,
its
actual
bulk
was
great
.
It
formed
the
pole
and
axis
of
this
heathery
world
.
As
the
resting
man
looked
at
the
barrow
he
became
aware
that
its
summit
,
hitherto
the
highest
object
in
the
whole
prospect
round
,
was
surmounted
by
something
higher
.
It
rose
from
the
semiglobular
mound
like
a
spike
from
a
helmet
.
The
first
instinct
of
an
imaginative
stranger
might
have
been
to
suppose
it
the
person
of
one
of
the
Celts
who
built
the
barrow
,
so
far
had
all
of
modern
date
withdrawn
from
the
scene
.
It
seemed
a
sort
of
last
man
among
them
,
musing
for
a
moment
before
dropping
into
eternal
night
with
the
rest
of
his
race
.
There
the
form
stood
,
motionless
as
the
hill
beneath
.
Above
the
plain
rose
the
hill
,
above
the
hill
rose
the
barrow
,
and
above
the
barrow
rose
the
figure
.
Above
the
figure
was
nothing
that
could
be
mapped
elsewhere
than
on
a
celestial
globe
.
Such
a
perfect
,
delicate
,
and
necessary
finish
did
the
figure
give
to
the
dark
pile
of
hills
that
it
seemed
to
be
the
only
obvious
justification
of
their
outline
.
Without
it
,
there
was
the
dome
without
the
lantern
;
with
it
the
architectural
demands
of
the
mass
were
satisfied
.
The
scene
was
strangely
homogeneous
,
in
that
the
vale
,
the
upland
,
the
barrow
,
and
the
figure
above
it
amounted
only
to
unity
.
Looking
at
this
or
that
member
of
the
group
was
not
observing
a
complete
thing
,
but
a
fraction
of
a
thing
.
The
form
was
so
much
like
an
organic
part
of
the
entire
motionless
structure
that
to
see
it
move
would
have
impressed
the
mind
as
a
strange
phenomenon
.
Immobility
being
the
chief
characteristic
of
that
whole
which
the
person
formed
portion
of
,
the
discontinuance
of
immobility
in
any
quarter
suggested
confusion
.
Yet
that
is
what
happened
.
The
figure
perceptibly
gave
up
its
fixity
,
shifted
a
step
or
two
,
and
turned
round
As
if
alarmed
,
it
descended
on
the
right
side
of
the
barrow
,
with
the
glide
of
a
water
-
drop
down
a
bud
,
and
then
vanished
.
The
movement
had
been
sufficient
to
show
more
clearly
the
characteristics
of
the
figure
,
and
that
it
was
a
woman
’
s
.
