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Gay curtains hung in the windows, and the veranda had been freshly painted. "At the end of the month Lucien gets his relief, and then they are to be married," said the little Cure. Early on St. Stephen's Day which is the day after Christmas young John Cara, son of old John Cara, the smith of Porthennis, took down his gun and went forth to kill small birds.
In the Church of Porthennis, up to twenty-five years ago, there stood a screen of ironwork a marvel of arabesques and intricate traceries, with baskets of flowers, sea-monsters, Cherubim, tying the filigree-work and looping it together in knots and centres. One panel had for subject a spider midmost in a web, to visit which smiths came hundreds of miles, from all over the country, and wondered.
When the late Sir Gilbert Aubyn, the famous neo-Gothic architect, was called in to restore Porthennis Church or, as we say in Cornwall, to "restroy" it he swept the remnants away. But the legend survives, ferro perennius. We sat and talked in the Vicarage garden overlooking Mount's Bay.
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