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Updated: June 23, 2025
When they got over the bridge, Reginald turned round, and, imprinting a kiss on the pale cheek of the astonished bride, said "Welcome home, dear Jane. This is Belfront Castle!" Jane looked round a spacious courtyard, and saw a square of low dark-looking buildings, with the enormous tower she had seen from the top of the hill rearing its thick head above all at one corner.
"To get into your infernal house, to be sure. Where did you get such unchristian roads? My bones are sore with the jolting. Send somebody to open the gate." "The drawbridge is up, and Mr Peeper must have his twopence." "Who the devil is Mr Peeper?" said the stranger. "I sha'n't give him a fraction. Who made the drawbridge his? Is Mr Belfront at home?" "Yes, he is in Mr Peeper's study."
"You're tired, my love," said Reginald; "you have walked too far up these Welsh mountains." "I hope to get used to climbing," answered Jane; "there are plenty of hills at Belfront aren't there?" "Yes, we have plenty of hills; but why don't you call it home, Jane?" "Because I have never lived there," she replied; "and a place can scarcely be called home that one has never seen."
Often, in her father's comfortable parlour, she had read accounts of baronial residences of the olden time; and one of the greatest pleasures she had felt in becoming Mrs Belfront, was to be the possessor of a real bona fide castle that had been actually a fortress in the days of knighthood.
One half of the world was surprised that Reginald Belfront married Jane Holford and the other half was equally surprised that Jane Holford married Reginald Belfront; for, considering the experience that both halves of the world must have had, it is amazing how subject they still are to surprise.
"We never break stones at Belfront," was the rejoinder; and in silence, and with some difficulty, they groped their unsteady way. At last they emerged from a thick overgrown copse, in which the accident had happened, and, after sundry narrow escapes from sprained ankles and broken arms, they reached the gate.
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