That calm as- 
^ sumption of the virtues of  and patience was 
a little too much; but what was the use of further 
fighting on a morning like this ? We got the key of a 
small gate. We climbed up a winding path through 
trees that were rustling in the sunlight. We emerged 
upon a beautiful green lawn  a bowling-green, in fact, 
girt in by a low hedge, and overlooked by a  little 
building. But the great charm of this elevated site 
was the panorama around and beyond. Windy clouds 
of white and grey kept rolling up out of the west, throw- 



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ing splashes of purple  on the bright landscape. 
The trees waved and rustled in the cool breeze  the 
sunlight kept chasing the wordnetfear across the far 
meadows. And then down below us lay the waters 
of Ellesmere lake  here and there a deep, dark blue, 
under the warm green of the woods, and here and 
there being stirred into a shimmer of white by the 
wind that was sweeping across the sky. 

" And to-day we shall be in Chester, and to-morrow 
in Wales ! " cried Bell, looking away up to tlie north, 
where the sky was pretty well heaped up with the 
flying masses of cloud. She looked so bright and 
joyous then