Read "The Dewy Morn" by Richard Jefferies online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
Miller Bond had long since found out, in an indirect way, who the gentleman was that met the hamlet prude Mary Shaw in the rickyard by the mill-pool. He had observed, too, that of late this gentleman had ceased to come, and he had heard through his assistant (who watched the machinery while Bond looked over the hatch) of Barnard's frequent visits to Beechknoll.
It was a matter of common hamlet gossip how Miss Felise had thrown over Mr. Godwin "all of a sudden" and "took" to "that there idle Barnard fellow"; not much of a change for her either, but "hur be a flighty one, hur be," was their comment.