Heather and Snow by George MacDonald — Read

Steenie seemed always to experience a strange sort of terror while / waiting for anyone to come out of the weem, into which he never / entered; and it was his repugnance to the place that chiefly moved him / to build a house of his own. He may have also calculated on being able, / with such a refuge at hand, to be on the hill in all weathers. They / still made use of their little hut as before, and Kirsty still kept her / library in it, but it was at the root of the Horn, and Steenie loved / the peak of it more than any other spot in his narrow world.

I have already said that when, on the occasion of its discovery, / Steenie, for the first and the last time, came out of the weem, he fled / to the Horn. There he roamed for hours, possessed with the feeling that / he had all but lost Kirsty who had taken possession of a house into / which he could never accompany her. For himself he would like a house / on the very top of the Horn, not one inside it!