Oh, that's
a job old Waveney likes well enough; and it will give the dogs a rest as
well as ourselves."
By this time the stalker had got out of sight. He was making a
considerable detour, so as to get round by the back of the hillock
unobserved; and when he came into view again, he was on the other side
of the valley. The mergansers, if they were mergansers, were still
swimming about unsuspectingly, though sometimes at a considerable
distance apart.
"Does Miss Cunyngham shoot as well as fish?" Lionel ventured to ask.
"She has tried it," her brother said, as he called up Roderick and gave
him a dram out of his capacious flask. "And I think she might shoot very
well, but she doesn't care about it. It is too violent, she says. The
sudden bang disturbs the charm of the scenery--something of that
kind--I'm not up in these things; but she's an odd kind of girl.
Tremendously fond of quietude and solitude; we've found her in the most
unexpected places--and there _are_ some lonely places about these hills.
I tell her she shouldn't go on these long excursions without taking old
Robert with her; supposing she were to sprain her ankle, she might have
to remain there all night and half the next day before we could find
her.
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