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1 THE NINTH OF JULY The day of their departure was one of theseries of summer heats could evolve The wide expanse of landscape quivered up and down like the flah theunder trees a little way off appeared of a pale blue colour Clover fields were livid with the brightness of the sun upon their deep red flowers All waggons and carts were moved to the shade by their careful owners, rain-water butts fell to pieces; well-buckets were lowered inside the covers of the well-hole, to preserve theenerally, water seemed scarcer in the country than the beer and cider of the peasantry who toiled or idled there

To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the char new sensations fron, rare in these feverish days--the htness of nature

Both brother and sister could do this; Cythereacorn-lands, monotonous to all their co those, with its angular and abrupt hills Boggy moors came next, noithered and dry--the spots upon which pools usually spread their waters showing themselves as circles of smooth bare soil, over-run by a net-work of innumerable little fissures Then arose plantations of firs, abruptly terh-hipped, rich-coloured coith backs horizontal and straight as the ridge of a house, stood motionless or lazily fed Glimpses of the sea now interested them, which became more and more frequent till the train finally drew up beside the platfor out for us,' had been Graye's ihout the day He called upon Mr Gradfield--the only --and found that Mr

Gradfield had forgotten it

However, arrangerey-bearded burgher of sixty--by which Oas to co week

The same day Cytherea drew up and sent off the advertise with an _engageoverness_ or _colish, French, and Music Satisfactory references--Address, C G, Post-Office, Budmouth' It seemed a more material existence than her own that she saw thus delineated on the paper 'That can't be myself; how odd I look!' she said, and smiled

2 JULY THE ELEVENTH On the Monday subsequent to their arrival in Budmouth, Owen Graye attended at Mr Gradfield's office to enter upon his duties, and his sister was left in their lodgings alone for the first time