Cradock, with a braver heart than he ever thought to own again (and yet with a hole and a string in it, for, after all, he did not own it), being begged away at last by the one who then went down on her knees, only to beg him back again,—that hapless yet most blessed fellow strode away as hard as he could, for fear of running back again; and the dusky trees closed round him, and he knew and loved every one of them. Then the latch of the gate for the last time clicked, when he was out of sight, and the laurustinus by the pier, beginning to bud for the winter, glistened in the moonlight with a silent storm of tears. END OF VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED BY C. WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND. FOOTNOTE: [1] “Wivvery”, _i. e._ giddy and dizzy.—[?] “Weavery”, from the clack and thrum of the loom; or, more probably, a softer form of “quivery”: the West Saxon loves to soften words. TRANSCRIBERʼS NOTES: —Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. —A Table of Contents was not in the original work; one has been produced and added by Transcriber. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cradock Nowell, Vol. 1 (of 3), by Richard Doddridge Blackmore