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Title: Women of the Country

Author: Gertrude Bone

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Women of the Country

THE ROADMENDER SERIES
_Uniform with this Volume_

The Roadmender. By MICHAEL FAIRLESS.
The Gathering of Brother Hilarius. By MICHAEL FAIRLESS.
The Grey Brethren. By MICHAEL FAIRLESS.
A Modern Mystic's Way. (Dedicated to Michael Fairless.)
Magic Casements. By ARTHUR S. CRIPPS.
Thoughts of Leonardo da Vinci,
as recorded in his Note-Books. Edited by EDWARD MCCURDY.
The Sea Charm of Venice. By STOPFORD A. BROOKE.
Longings. By W.D. MCKAY.
From the Forest. By W. SCOTT PALMER.
Pilgrim Man. By W. SCOTT PALMER.
Winter and Spring. By W. SCOTT PALMER.
Michael Fairless: Life and Writings.
By W. SCOTT PALMER and A.M. HAGGARD.
Vagrom Men. By A.T. STORY.
Light and Twilight. By EDWARD THOMAS.
Rest and Unrest. By EDWARD THOMAS.
Rose Acre Papers: including Horae Solitarae. By EDWARD THOMAS.

[Illustration]

Women of the Country

By

Gertrude Bone

With Frontispiece by Muirhead Bone

London

Duckworth & Co.

Henrietta Street, W.C.

_Published 1913_

WOMEN OF THE COUNTRY

CHAPTER I

When I was a child I lived in a small sea-coast town, with wide, flat
sands. The only beautiful thing in the place--a town of no
distinction--were the sunsets over this vast, level expanse. I remember
them at intervals, as one recalls things seen passing in a train through
a solitary landscape. I seem to see myself, a child with a child's
imagination, standing on those wet sands, looking out over their purple
immensity to the glittering line of the tide on the horizon, and to see
again the sun in such a wide heaven that it seemed to have the world to
itself, and to watch the changes in the sky as it sank, drawing with it
the light. These great sands were dangerous at times, shifting in
whirling and irresistible rushes of water, and changing