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But she did not dress the part very vigorously , and report soon accepted the husband as a bad lot and a riddance . Nothing very uncommon in that ! If the daylight were not so short in October at Chorlton-under-Bradbury , in Rocestershire , that month would quite do for summer in as many autumns as not . As it is , from ten till five , the sun that comes to say goodbye to the apples , that will all be plucked by the end of the month , is so strong that forest trees are duped , and are ready to do their part towards a green Yule if only the midday warmth will linger on to those deadly small hours of the morning , when hoarfrost gets the thin end of its wedge into the almanack , and sleepers go the length of coming out of bed for something to put over their feet , and end by putting it over most of their total . From ten till five , at least , the last swallows seem to be reconsidering their departure , and the skylarks to be taking heart , and thinking they can go on ever so much longer . Then , not unfrequently , day falls in love with night for the sake of the moonrise , and dies of its passion in a blaze of golden splendour . But the memory of her does not live long into the heart of the night , as it did in the long summer twilights .