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Surely no man would work so hard or attain such precise information unless he had some definite end in view.

She had discovered that a lane opened out below the apple orchard and ran up through a belt of woodland; and she had explored it to its furthest end in all its delicious vagaries of brook and bridge, fir coppice and wild cherry arch, corners thick with fern, and branching byways of maple and mountain ash.

With this end in view Anne had strained every nerve during the examinations.

He’d just broke in at the pantry window when William came on him and met his end in saving his master’s property.”