She went to Blackwood in the March with four servants.
Effie, who had been her mother's and who was fifty-one and who did not want to go and went. A boy called Tam, who was nineteen and who had gone down to a ford in the dark in the November and come back with a bridle. And two she took because they were the only ones who volunteered, which she has never forgotten and which is the reason both of their sons had places on that ground forty years later.
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