A Greek Beauty

and listened. The water was now high in the streams, squirting through the weirs, and tinkling under culverts; the smallest gullies were all full; there was no taking short cuts anywhere, and foot-passengers were compelled to follow the permanent ways. From the whole extent of the invisible vale came a multitudinous intonation; it forced upon their fancy that a great city lay below them, and that the murmur was the vociferation of its populace. ¡¡¡¡`It seems like tens of thousands of them,' said Tess; `holding public-meetings in their market-places, arguing, preaching, quarrelling, sobbing, groaning, praying, and cursing.' ¡¡¡¡Clare was not particularly heeding. ¡¡¡¡`Did Crick speak to you to-day, dear, about his not wanting much assistance during the winter months?' ¡¡¡¡`No.' ¡¡¡¡`The cows are going dry rapidly.'