A. E. W. Mason

Name: The Four Feathers — XXXI: Faversham Returns to Ramelton
Author: A. E. W. Mason

The Four Feathers — XXXI: Faversham Returns to Ramelton (1902)

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“The Four Feathers — XXXI: Faversham Returns to Ramelton”, published in 1902, is a work by A. E. W. Mason. It explores elements such as Ramelton, Glenalla and Eustace.

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXXI: Faversham Returns to Ramelton (1902)

“ Her heart, although she stood so still and silent, went out to him in grief for the great troubles which he had endured; but she saw, too, that he came back without a thought of anger towards her for that fourth feather snapped from her fan. But she was clear-eyed even at this moment. She saw much more. She understood that the man who stood quietly before her now was not the same man whom she had last seen in the hall of Ramelton. There had been a timidity in his manner in those days, a peculiar diffidence, a continual expectation of other men's contempt, which had gone from him. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXXI: Faversham Returns to Ramelton (1902)

“ Once he stopped when he was opposite to the church, set high above the road upon his right hand, and wondered whether Ethne was still at Ramelton—whether old Dermod was alive, and what kind of welcome he would receive. But he waked in a moment to the knowledge that he was sitting upon his horse in the empty road and in the quiet of an August morning. There were larks singing in the pale blue above his head; a landrail sent up its harsh cry from the meadow on the left; the crow of a cock rose clear from the valley. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXXI: Faversham Returns to Ramelton (1902)

“ A few cottages stood together, then came a gap of fields, beyond that a small plantation of larches and a house which stood by itself. Beyond the house was another gap, through which he could see straight down to the water of the Lough, shining in the afternoon sun, and the white gulls poising and swooping above it. And after passing that gap he came to a small grey church, standing bare to the winds upon its tiny plateau. A pathway of white shell-dust led from the door of the church to the little wooden gate. As he came level with the gate a collie dog barked at him from behind it. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXXI: Faversham Returns to Ramelton (1902)

“ He was now quietly self-possessed; not arrogant; on the other hand, not diffident. He had put himself to a long, hard test; and he knew that he had not failed. All that she saw; and her face lightened as she said:—
"It is not all harm which has come of these years. They were not wasted."
But Feversham thought of her lonely years in this village of Glenalla—and thought with a man's thought, unaware that nowhere else would she have chosen to live. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXXI: Faversham Returns to Ramelton (1902)

“ Then she said:—
"I wonder whether you have forgotten our drive from Ramelton to our house when I came to fetch you from the quay? We were alone in the dog-cart, and we spoke—"
"Of the friends whom one knows for friends the first moment, and whom one seems to recognise even though one has never seen them before," interrupted Feversham. "Indeed I remember."
"And whom one never loses whether absent or dead," continued Ethne. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXXI: Faversham Returns to Ramelton (1902)

“ The rider looked at the dog, which was very grey about the muzzle. He noticed its marking, and stopped his horse altogether. He glanced towards the church, and saw that the door stood open. At once he dismounted; he fastened his horse to the fence, and entered the churchyard. The collie thrust its muzzle into the back of his knee, sniffed once or twice doubtfully, and suddenly broke into an exuberant welcome. The collie dog had a better memory than the landlady of the inn. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXXI: Faversham Returns to Ramelton (1902)

“ It's a poor mountain village is Glenalla, and no place for Miss Eustace, at all, at all. Perhaps you will be wanting to see her?"
"Yes. I shall be glad if you will order my horse to be brought round to the door," said the man; and he rose from the table to put an end to the interview.
The landlady, however, was not so easily dismissed. She stood at the door and remarked:—
"Well, that's curious—that's most curious. For only a fortnight ago a gentleman burnt just as black as yourself stayed a night here on the same errand. He asked for Miss Eustace's address and drove up to Glenalla. ”

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A. E. W. Mason, The Four Feathers — XXXI: Faversham Returns to Ramelton (1902)

“ She kept them, as she had once kept Harry Feversham's portrait. There was something perhaps in Durrance's contention that women so much more than men gather up their experiences and live upon them, looking backwards. ”

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