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could not haveClara wished to stay at home She pleaded that she

preferred rest, but Mrs Caffyn vowed there should be no Norbury Park

if Clara did not go, and the kind creature -

dealer to drive the it was Sunday The whole party then set out; the

baby was drawn in a borrowed carriage which also took the provisions,

and they were fairly out of the town before the Letherhead bells had

ceased ringing for church It was one of the sweetest of Sundays,

sunny, but masses of white clouds now and then broke the heat The

park was reached early in the forenoon, and it was agreed that dinner

should be served under one of the huge beech trees at the lower end,

as the hill was a little too steep for the baby-carriage in the hot

sun

'This is very beautiful,' said Marshall, when dinner was over, 'but

it is not e carove'

'Yes, you be off, the whole lot of you,' said Mrs Caffyn 'I know

every tree there, and I ain't going there this afternoon Somebody