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Then , some one told him casually that ` Lias was more ailing than usual , and that Margaret was in much trouble . He was pricked with remorse , but just because Margaret would be sure to question him , a raw shyness came in and held him back from the effort of going . On the Saturday evening David , having ingeniously given Louie the slip , sped across the fields to the smithy . It was past five o'clock , and the light was fading . But the waning gold of the sunset as he jumped the wall on to the moor made the whole autumnal earth about him , and the whole side of the Scout , one splendour . Such browns and pinks among the withering ling ; such gleaming greens among the bilberry leaf ; such reds among the turning ferns ; such fiery touches on the mountain ashes overhanging the Red Brook ! The western light struck in great shafts into the bosom of the Scout ; and over its grand encompassing mass hung some hovering clouds just kindling into rosy flame .