The Salamanca Corpus: Yeoman Fleetwood (1900 ... - Gredos

The Salamanca Corpus: Yeoman Fleetwood (1900)
And takes away the stomach, — such are the rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not. —Shakespeare.
All that day the wind raged furiously, but Simon went about his ordinary outdoor
occupations in spite of the difficulty, not to say danger, attending them. Miss Belinda
was much exercised in her mind because of his early expedition to Liverpool, and also
because of his dreamy and preoccupied air.
"If this kind of work goes on," she said to herself, "one of us '11 go silly — as like as
not both. My word, my word, to think as that nice little lad should come to be such a
softy now he is a man! I have more than half a mind to go and live wi' my Cousin
Pringle."
Though Aunt Binney had frequently held this threat over both Simon and his father, she
had never so seriously thought of putting it into execution as on this particular windy
morning.
“At least Cousin Pringle would have a word to throw to a body now and then," she
reflected, “and there would be plenty to do, helpin' her wi' the children and that; and it
would hearten up a body, too, to live t'other side of Liverpool, and see folks ridin' in and
out of town — still, to leave the Farm" — Miss Belinda groaned to herself,
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shook her head, and resumed her occupation with a gloomy face.
Simon was silent and queer that morning, and seemed scarce right in's head, but when
all was said and done he reckoned she would know when dinner-time came round.
Simon indeed was punctuality itself, and in spite of the turmoil of his thoughts, and the
consequent failure of his usually healthy appetite, noon found him wending his way
homewards.
The path in front of him was strewn with torn leaves and fragments of branches; as he
glanced over the hedge at the orchard, he sighed to see the ground beneath the trees
white with fallen bloom. Here and there a riven bough barred his progress for a
moment, and the air was full of the wild hurry and screaming of the wind. He was tired
of the sound: he wanted breathing space to adjust the thoughts which had been pressing