Country-side

Our young misses were also invited, for they cut a very grand figure among the people of the country-side.

But behind the peaceful and sunlit country-side there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.

To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the country-side, which bore so clearly the mark of the waning year.

“You would have thought the middle of that prairie a fairly safe place for a man to be private,” said he, “but, by thunder, the whole country-side seems to have been out to see me do my wooing."

Capitalist operations in the country-side were on the way out. The dominant economic force in the country-side now became the wealthier working peasant, with a few hired hands under him.