Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs

Westward of that old town Steyning and near Washington and Wiston the lover of an English landscape may find much to dwell upon. The best way to enjoy it is to follow the path along the meadows underneath the inland rampart of the Sussex hills. Here is pasture rich enough for the daintiest sheep to dream upon; tones of varied green in stripes (by order of the farmer) trees as for a portrait grouped with the folding hills behind and light and shadow making love in play to one another. Also in the breaks of meadow and the footpath bendings stiles where love is made in earnest at the proper time of year with the dark-browed hills imposing everlasting constancy.