Возвращение на родину

III. The Custom of the Country

           Theclear,kinglyeffulgencethathadcharacterizedthemajorityexpressedaheathandfurzecountryliketheirown,whichinonedirectionextendedanunlimitednumberofmiles;therapidflaresandextinctionsatotherpointsofthecompassshowedthelightestoffuel—straw,beanstalks,andtheusualwastefromarableland.Themostenduringofall—steadyunalteringeyeslikePlanets—signifiedwood,suchashazel-branches,thorn-faggots,andstoutbillets.Firesofthelast-mentionedmaterialswererare,andthoughcomparativelysmallinmagnitudebesidethetransientblazes,nowbegantogetthebestofthembymerelongcontinuance.Thegreatoneshadperished,buttheseremained.Theyoccupiedtheremotestvisiblepositions—sky-backedsummitsrisingoutofrichcoppiceandplantationdistrictstothenorth,wherethesoilwasdifferent,andheathforeignandstrange.

           Saveone;andthiswasthenearestofany,themoonofthewholeshiningthrong.Itlayinadirectionpreciselyoppositetothatofthelittlewindowinthevalebelow.Itsnearnesswassuchthat,notwithstandingitsactualsmallness,itsglowinfinitelytranscendedtheirs.

           Thisquieteyehadattractedattentionfromtimetotime;andwhentheirownfirehadbecomesunkenanddimitattractedmore;someevenofthewoodfiresmorerecentlylightedhadreachedtheirdecline,butnochangewasperceptiblehere.

           “Tobesure,hownearthatfireis!”saidFairway.“Seemingly.Icanseeafellowofsomesortwalkingroundit.Littleandgoodmustbesaidofthatfire,surely.”

           “Icanthrowastonethere,”saidtheboy.

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