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These were the children of Nature, whose song-birds are the screaming eagle, the croaking raven, and the crying sea-doves blown inland by the wild westerly gales.
The latter turned to me, and said in her quiet and sober way "But I discovered soon enough that the sea-turtle was not a sea-dove, did I not?" "What are you talking about sea-doves?" asked the countess; "it seems you have secrets in common already." I opened my mouth to answer, when the little blonde opposite to me sprang up and put her little shell-coloured hand to my lips.
And there were still some of the old trees left standing, gnarled and twisted, and so thickly coated with moss, that great ferns grew out of it, and hung down from the branches. What a pity to destroy the work of centuries, the like of which we shall never see again! We saw to-day some of the pretty spotted sea-doves, that have just arrived to spend the winter with us.
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