But by midsummer the great shoals of mackerel went away, and with them the dark picturesque hookers, and the ugly steamers, and the inhabitants were once more left to their sleepy, old-fashioned, but withal pleasant life.
Rosendale Manor was situated on high ground.

It was surrounded by a wall, and the wide avenue was entered by ponderous iron gates.

It was about eleven o'clock when the girls and their brother started gayly off for their day on the water.

Loftus carried a couple of rugs, so that the fact of Mabel lugging a heavy picnic basket on her sturdy left arm did not look specially remarkable.

They went down a steep and straggling hill, passed through an old-fashioned green, with the local club at one side, and a wall at the other which seemed to hang right over the sea.
They soon reached the Long Quay, and made their bargain for the best boat to be had.