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Clieveden Woods still wore their dainty dress of spring, and rose up, from the water's edge, in one long harmony of blended shades of fairy green. In its unbroken loveliness this is, perhaps, the sweetest stretch of all the river, and lingeringly we slowly drew our little boat away from its deep peace.

Primrose ran up and down the wide, smooth walk, made of dirt and small stones with much labor, where, through the summer at least, not a tuft of grass was permitted to grow. How lovely it was! The house stood on quite an elevation. One could see Mount Airy and Clieveden and other summer homes, and the Schuylkill winding placidly about, peeping through its embowered banks here and there.

Peter's with their steeples, there were more modest ones, and the Friends' meeting house that had held many a worthy. "It is well worth seeing," said Betty Mason. "Some of the places about make me think of my own State and the broad, hospitable dwellings." "Oh, but you should see Stenton and Clieveden! and the Chew House at Germantown is already historical.

Whether it be Bourne End with its broad reach and the sailing punts, or the wooded heights by Clieveden; whether it be Boulter's Lock on Ascot Sunday, or the quiet stretch near Goring there is only one River. Henley, Wargrave, Cookham it matters not. . . . They all go to form The River.

"I've never been at Skindle's." "And after lunch we'll go out on the river the Clieveden woods, you know and all that." "I've never seen the Clieveden woods." "Then that's settled. At eleven. All right, driver; go on." But she stretched her hands toward him. "Oh, Chip, don't come! I'm afraid. What's the good? Since we've burned our bridges "