They did not speak much more, but thridded their way through many a bosky dell, whose soft green influence could not charm away the shock and the pain in Margaret's heart, caused by the recital of such cruelty; a recital too, the manner of which betrayed such utter want of imagination, and therefore of any sympathy with the suffering animal.

They did not speak much more, but threaded their way through many a green dell, whose soft influence could not charm away the shock in Margaret's heart.
