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For a moment she continued to look steadily up at the clouds and beyond

them into the depths of blue sky which showed here and there between

the storm rifts, then she quietly put on her hat and returned down the

well-known path to the river, and with steady, set face and firm step

made her way homeward

When her uncle appeared at the tea-table, he carried two large books

under his arhted and the

red curtains drawn Up here on the cliffs the as already blowing

furiously; it roared in the chih

every chink in the badly-fitting s

"Now, let me see--chap xii--Valmai, have you found it? St Antwn's

sermon to the fishes," and he settled his crossed, head thrown back, listening with evident pleasure,

while Val control, and for ever

following Cardo on his journey

"Oh, how the wind is shrieking, uncle; it is like a hu with dreairl so full

of hopes and fears--"stor Go on, Valood as usual," and

once e, and endeavoured to keep her

thoughts fro