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Before the Vicar retired to rest he took down from a shelf an old
Bible, fro the book, knelt down
to pray As he rose from his knees, the last words on his lips were,
"Caradoc, olds see than usual to Cardo Wynne He was up with the lark, and
striding fro
to a hurried breakfast, and out again on the breezy hillside before the
blue sun to curl up froes called "Abersethin"
Down there, under the cliffs, the little village slu to touch its ashed walls with gold, while up
above, on the high lands, the "Vicare du's" fields were already bathed
in the e and frohts continually flew across the valley to the rugged hill on the
other side, and to the old grey house on the cliff--the hoht for any sign of the girl whose
acquaintance he had made so unexpectedly, and he was almost tempted to
believe that she was no other than a creature of his own iht hour, and absorbed again into the
passing shadows of night But could he have seen through the walls of
that old grey house, even now at that early hour, he would have
understood what kept the preacher's niece so busily engaged that