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"If not, of course, you are fully aware that you will be my guest for the next two or three years. It is scarcely likely you will win the Scholarship, and I have already been making all the arrangements I could with regard to your instruction," said Miss Dartmoor. "Will you come round the place now with me; I should like to have some conversation with you.
"There is no one else that I can have, and I don't suppose I need see a great deal of Helen." "Certainly not; she will only arrive at the Park the day before the Scholarship competition takes place." "Then I suppose she must come," said Kitty. "It would be a kindness," said Sir John, slowly. "I happen to know Miss Dartmoor; she has few pleasures." Kitty nodded. Sir John turned to Mary.
I wish now to tell you of my adventures in England, and how far Milor Wellington's words were true when he said that his King would hold me. And first of all I may say that if it were not that I have set off to tell you about what befell myself, I could keep you here until morning with my stories about Dartmoor itself, and about the singular things which occurred there.
It was good of Sir John to send her that twenty pounds, and yet and yet it chokes me to think of it. He would not dare to send the money to Kitty's cousin, Helen Dartmoor, nor would he dare to send it to Mary Bateman's father. Oh, if I can only win this Scholarship I shall hold my head high and exercise that pride, which, after all, no woman ought to be without."
Even Cleer, who accompanied her father everywhere on his rambles, clad in stout shoes and coarse blue serge gown . for Dartmoor is by no means a place to be approached by those who, like Agag, "walk delicately" even Cleer didn't know that this craggy peak, jagged and pointed like some Alpine or dolomitic aiguille, was known to all the neighboring shepherds around as St.
After that I cleared off. Descending through a fertile valley, from the bottom there loomed upwards higher mountains, looking black and dismal, with clouds black and dismal keeping them company. We had now to cross the undulating ground still separating us from Pu-pêng. The early portion of the ground was something like Clifton Downs, something like Dartmoor.
In the broad High Street, thronged with folk, and dissonant with tram cars and motor 'buses, he came upon a quarrelsome crowd looking up at a window above a poulterer's shop, from which hung something white, like a strip of wall paper. Approaching, he perceived that it bore a crude drawing of a convict and "Good old Dartmoor" for legend.
But Sir Lionel can't wait longer for Cornwall, and, so day-after-to-morrow night my eyes shall look upon only think of it "dark Tintagel by the Cornish sea." That is, we shall see it, Apollo permitting, for motors and men gang aft aglee. This isn't apropos of Apollo's usual behaviour, but of the stories we've been told concerning Dartmoor roads.
I scarcely knew what I was doing, and then Mrs. Clavering took me into her oak parlor and told me still further bad news. That I oh, father dear, oh, father that I was to go and live with Helen Dartmoor. How could you think of it, father? But there, she said it had to be, and I felt nearly wild. You don't know what I was suffering, although I tried so very hard to be brave.
Sir Francis Drake was lingering about Plymouth, digging a ditch, it was said, to bring water from Dartmoor. He would never get license to attack King Philip on his own shores. The Queen knew better than to give it. Humfrey and Diccon would get no better sport than robbing a ship or two on the way to the Netherlands.
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