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So it was settled, and on the Friday Clara and Mrs Caffyn journeyed

to Great Oakhurst They were both tired, and went to bed very early,

in order that they ht

sleeper, woke between three and four, rose and went to the little

caseht Below her, on the

left, the church was just discernible, and on the right, the broad

chalk uplands leaned to the south, and aving with green barley

and wheat Underneath her lay the cottage garden, with its row of

beehives in the north-east corner, sheltered froe It had evidently been raining a little, for the

drops hung on the currant bushes, but the clouds had been driven by

the south-westerly wind into the eastern sky, where they lay in a

long, low, grey band Not a sound was to be heard, save every now

and then the crow of a cock or the short cry of a just-awakened

thrush High up on the zenith, the approach of the sun to the

horizon was proclaimed by the most delicate tints of rose-colour, but

the cloud-bank above hih the blue

which was over it, was everypaler Clara watched;

she was moved even to tears by the beauty of the scene, but she was

stirred by so more than beauty, just as he as in the

Spirit and beheld a throne and One sitting thereon, saw soh He was radiant with the colour of

jasper and there was a rainbow round about Hihest top of the cloud-rae of flame In a

few , and in

another second the sun eed, the first arrowy shaft passed into