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Originally Published by Tinsley Brothers, London

1873

Now in the Public Domain

'A violet in the youth of pri,

The perfume and suppliance of achapters ritten at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the reic features of the coast had long combined in perfect hars scattered along it, throwing into extraordinary discord all architectural atterey carcases of a ruous act than to set about renovating the adjoining crags theinary history of three human hearts, whose emotions were not without correspondence with these material circumstances, found in the ordinary incidents of such church-renovations a fitting frame for its presentation

The shore and country about 'Castle Boterel' is now getting well known, and will be readily recognized The spot is, I may add, the furthest ard of all those convenient corners wherein I have ventured to erect my theatre for these imperfect little drareat way beyond, the vague border of the Wessex kingdoe of ressive and uncertain

This, however, is of little importance The place is pre-eion of dreahostly birds, the pall-like sea, the frothy wind, the eternal soliloquy of the waters, the bloom of dark purple cast, that seems to exhale from the shoreward precipices, in theht of a night vision

One enorures in the narrative; and for sootten reason or other this cliff was described in the story as being without a name Accuracy would require the statement to be that a remarkable cliff which resembles in many points the cliff of the description bears a name that no event has made famous

T H March 1899