I had, by cross-ways and by- paths, once more drawn near the tract of moorland; and now, only a few fields, almost as wild and unproductive as the heath from which they were scarcely reclaimed, lay between me and the dusky hill.
A lo largo de atajos y senderos había llegado otra vez a las cercanías de la zona pantanosa y en mi torno sólo se divisaban míseros prados, casi tan silvestres y áridos como el páramo mismo.