[Beatrice by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookBeatrice CHAPTER XI 7/19
Let us hope that she will get it one day.
It would hurt nobody, and she is sure to find plenty of people of her own way of thinking--that is, if this world supplies the raw material. She embraced Effie with enthusiasm, and her husband with a chastened warmth, and went, a pious prayer on her lips that she might never again set eyes upon Bryngelly. It will not be necessary for us to follow Lady Honoria in her travels. That afternoon Effie and her father had great fun.
They packed up. Geoffrey, who was rapidly recovering from his stiffness, pushed the things into the portmanteaus and Effie jumped on them.
Those which would not go in they bundled loose into the fly, till that vehicle looked like an old clothes ship.
Then, as there was no room left for them inside, they walked down to the Vicarage by the beach, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile, stopping on their way to admire the beautiful castle, in one corner of which Owen Davies lived and moved. "Oh, daddy," said the child, "I wish you would buy a house like that for you and me to live in.
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