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GREY WETHERS

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By V. SACKVILLE-WEST

GREY WETHERS
THE HEIR AND OTHER STORIES
CHALLENGE
HERITAGE
KNOLE AND THE SACKVILLES

New York:
George H. Doran Company

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GREY WETHERS

A Romantic Novel

V. SACKVILLE-WEST

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

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GREY WETHERS. II
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PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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CLAIRE

Ces fantômes charmants que nous croyons à nous...

Ils sont là, près de nous, jouant sur notre route;

Ils ne dédaignent pas notre soleil obscur,

Et derrière eux, et sans que leur candeur s’en doute,

Leurs ailes font parfois de l’ombre sur le mur.

Ils ont ce grand dégout mystérieux de l’âme

Pour notre chair coupable et pour notre destin;

Ils ont, êtres rêveurs qu’un autre azur réclame,

Je ne sais quelle soif de mourir le matin.

Victor Hugo.

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GREY WETHERS

PART ONE

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GREY WETHERS

Part One

More than half a century has now elapsed since the events which addeda new legend to the hard ancient hills lying about Marlborough andKing’s Avon. The last organised rustic Scouring of the White Horse ofKing’s Avon,—from which occasion these events may properly be said todate, although a believer in predestination might be found to contendthat they dated, indeed, from the very births of Clare Warrener andNicholas Lovel,—that last organised Scouring took place more thanhalf a century ago. The White Horse remains, the same gaunt, hoaryrelic; King’s Avon remains, secluded, tragic, rearing its great stoneswithin the circle of its strange earthwork; the Downs remain, and everywinter, now as then, shroud their secrets and the memory of theirsecrets beneath the same mantle of snow away from the speculation ofthe curious. But of Clare Warrener and

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GREY WETHERS

CLAIRE

PART ONE

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