We went from Christiansund to Holland, and saw all those pretty Dutch cities with their canals and quaint bridges.

Then we went through the English Channel to Brest,--then by the Bay of Biscay to Bayonne.

Bayonne seemed to me very lovely, but we left it soon, and travelled a long way by land, seeing all sorts of wonderful things, till we came to Arles.

And though it is such a long route, and not one for many persons to take, I have travelled to Arles and back twice that way, so all there is familiar to me,--and in some things I do think it better than Norway." "What induced your father to send you so far away from him ?" asked Philip rather curiously.
The girl's eyes softened tenderly.

"Ah, that is easy to understand!" she said.