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not considered them in the same point of 

 view, pass by them with indifference/* 



He had scarcely done speaking, when 

 they had begun to enter a hollow lane on 

 the opposite side of the common; the 

 banks were high and steep ; and the soil, 

 being sand mixed with stone, had crum- 

 bled away in many places from among the 

 junipers, heath and furze, which, with 

 some thorns, and a few knotty old pollard 

 oaks, and yews, cloathed the sides. 



A little way further, but in sight from 

 the entrance, stood a cottage, which was 

 placed in a dip of the bank near the top- 

 Some rude steps led from it into the lane, and 

 a few paces from the bottom of these steps, 

 the rill which ran on the same side of the 

 lane, had washed away the soil, and form- 

 ed a small pool under the hollow of the 

 bank : at the edge of the water, some large 

 flat stones, had been placed, on which a 

 , woman and a girl were beating clothes; a 

 little boy stood looking on: some other 

 children sat upon the steps, and an old 

 woman was leaning over the wicket of the 



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