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Everywhere hearts and hands were full of warenerally looking askance at the

chapels and their swarations, now, carried away by the

enthusiass, secretly

looking forward, with the Welsh love of oratory, to the eloquent

serenerally to be heard on such occasions

Cardo, ruthlessly striding through the dew-bespangled gossamer of the

turnip field, heard with pleasure fro field,

which sloped down to the valley, had been fixed upon for the holding of

the Sassiwn On the flat at the bottoe platforuests were to be seated; while the congregation would sit on the

hillside, which reached up to the Vicar's land At least three

thousand, or even four, ht be expected

All day Cardo looked over the valley with intense interest, and when

the day's as over, unable to restrain his curiosity and

ier, he determined to take a closer survey of the old

house on the hill, which for so h his inner perception had never taken account of it At

last, crossing the beach, he took his way up the steep path that led to