blue-and-gold-and-opal

Updated: May 7, 2025

The path was a shorter cut to the beach than the creeper-covered way by which they had come, and almost directly they saw through the trees the shining blue-and-gold-and-opal of sand and sea. 'Stick to it, cried Cyril, breathlessly. They did stick to it; they tore down the sands they could hear behind them as they ran the patter of feet which they knew, too well, were copper-coloured.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - The Phoenix and the Carpet