Locality

Preface: Now and then some friend went down into Devon to see him; those who had that pleasure will not forget the plain little house amid its half-wild garden, the cosy book-room with its fine view across the valley of the Exe to Haldon …

春 9: But I was thinking of the year which saw my first exodus from London. On an irresistible impulse, I suddenly made up my mind to go into Devon, a part of England I had never seen. At the end of March I escaped from my grim lodgings, and before I had time to reflect on the details of my undertaking, I found myself sitting in sunshine at a spot very near to where I now dwell - before me the green valley of the broadening Exe and the pine-clad ridge of Haldon.