It's ta'en a vast o' watter t' cover that stone to-day.

Anyhow, I'll have time to go home and rate my missus for worritin' hersen, as I'll be bound she's done, for all as I bade her not, but to keep easy and content.' 'We'd better be off too,' said Molly, as an opening was made through the press to let out the groping old man.

'Eggs and butter is yet to sell, and tha' cloak to be bought.' 'Well, I suppose we had!' said Sylvia, rather regretfully; for, though all the way into Monkshaven her head had been full of the purchase of this cloak, yet she was of that impressible nature that takes the tone of feeling from those surrounding; and though she knew no one on board the Resolution, she was just as anxious for the moment to see her come into harbour as any one in the crowd who had a dear relation on board.

So she turned reluctantly to follow the more prudent Molly along the quay back to the Butter Cross.
It was a pretty scene, though it was too familiar to the eyes of all who then saw it for them to notice its beauty.

The sun was low enough in the west to turn the mist that filled the distant valley of the river into golden haze.