In no other part of the kingdom can you find so steep a beach fronting the southwest winds, which are ten to one of all other winds, without any break of sand or rock outside.

Hence we have what you can not have on a shallow shore--grand rollers: straight from the very Atlantic, Erema; you and I have seen them.

You may see by the map that they all end here, with the wind in the proper quarter." "Oh, please not to talk of such horrors," I said.

"Why, your ramparts would go like pie crust." The Major smiled a superior smile, and after more talk we went home to dinner.
From something more than mere curiosity, I waited at Bruntsea for a day or two, hoping to see that strange namesake of mine who had shown so much inhospitality.

For she must have been at home when we made that pressing call, inasmuch as there was no other place to hide her within the needful distance of the spot where she had stood.