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"No--not home with the crowd, but down over the beach;" and she fell in

with the suggestion, turning her face to the sea breeze and taking the

path to the shore

Here the Beras running with its usual babbling and gurgling

through the stones into the sea, the north-as tossing the

foa up the yellow

sand like children at play; the little sea-croed noisily as they

wheeled round the cliffs, and the sea-gulls called to their fellows as

they floated over the waves or stood about the wet, shining sands

"There's beautiful, it is," said Val breaths of the sea wind; "only six weeks I have been here

and yet I seem to have known it for ever--I suppose because fro of this place It was his old ho to coine that I don't think I could ever be

thoroughly happy away from here"

"Nor I too, indeed," said Valmai, "now that I know it"

"I hope you will never leave the place--you see to it

somehow; and I hope I may never leave it, at least--at all events--"