Within was a paddock in an uncultivated state, though bearing evidence of having once been tilled; but the heath and fern had insidiously crept in, and were reasserting their old supremacy.

土堤内是一块荒芜的田地，虽然看上去以前曾经耕种过，但是石南和蕨草伺机侵入，正在要回它们旧日的优势。