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who care for nature-study, those by whom all 

 the phenomena of the world, whether great or 

 small, are regarded with interest no less for 

 their beauty than for the suggestive intelligence 

 which is felt to be moving behind them. 



We lingered for a long time on the moor- 

 land. We know what a charm there is in 

 sitting, very quiet and still, within some 

 chamber already almost dark, watching the 

 clear light of evening fade out of the sky. It 

 was the same on the moor. The night seemed 

 already to have reached the undulating circle 

 of rock and heather in midst of which we stood ; 

 but the mountains, towards whose summits our 

 eyes were lifted, seemed as if they might stand 

 for ever unchanging in the radiance, clear if 

 not brilliant, which still filled the west. 



The day had been, as we have said, an 

 eventful one ; and yet the story of it was not 

 finished. The way from the moor, passing 

 close by the kirk and the manse, dips into a 



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