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One great pleasure they enjoyed together was bathing The Homestead

possessed a little cove of its own under the rocks, where there was

a bathing-house, and full perfection of arrange ladies'

aquatic enjoyorous

strength and health had been greatly promoted by her familiarity with

salt water, and Bessie was in ecstasies at the naiad perforether on the smooth bit of sandy shore, where they dabbled and

floated fearlessly One , when they had been down very early to

be beforehand with the tide, which put a stop to their enjoy

before the breakfast hour, Bessie asked if they could not profit

by their leisure to cli by the direct path, and Rachel agreed, with the greater

pleasure, that it was an enterprise she had seldoh adventurous, was the walk--now on the brow of the

steep cliff, looking down on the water or on little bays of shingle,

now through bits of thicket that held out bra on their shoulders; always in the brisk hing, joking, calling

to one another and to Conrade's little dog, that, like every other

creature, had attached itself to Bessie, and had followed her fro, to the vexation of Rachel, who had no love for