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Nell loved the place with a great and exceeding love, with all the love

of a girl to whom beauty is a continual feast She knew every inch of

it; for she had lived in the cottage on the hill since she was a child

of seven, and she was now nearly twenty-one She knew every soul in the

fishing village, and, indeed, for miles around, and not seldom she was

spoken of as "Miss Nell, of Shorne Mills;" and the simple folk were as

proud of the title as was Nell herself They were both fond and proud of

her In any cottage and at any time her presence was a welcome one, and

every woman and child, when in trouble, flew to her for help and coe of the poor and

sorrowing in all country places

As she swung to the little gate behind her this , she paused and

looked round at the farandeur, and

its solitude struck her strangely, as if she were looking at it for the

first time

"One could be so happy if ht; and at the thought her eyes grew sadder and the sweet

lips drooped still more at the corner; but as she went up the hill, the

fine rare air, the brilliant sunshine acted like an anodyne, and the

eyes grew brighter, the lips relaxed, so that Smart's--the