Her long and late walks lay always, as has been said, on lonely roads; but in whatever direction she had rambled--whether along the drear skirts of Stilbro' Moor or over the sunny stretch of Nunnely Common--her homeward path was still so contrived as to lead her near the Hollow. 
Her long walks lay on lonely roads; but in whatever direction she had rambled, her homeward path always led her near the Hollow. 