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There are three tiers of these dunes, forming a triple bulwark against the ocean: the outer is the most barren, the centre the highest, and the inner the most cultivated. The medium height of these mountains of sand is not greater than fifteen metres, and all together they do not extend into the land for more than a French league.
The Pennystone, off the Lancashire coast by Blackpool, tells of a submerged village and manor, about which cluster romantic legends. Such is the sad record of the sea's destruction, for which the industrious reclamation of land, the compensations wrought by the accumulation of shingle and sand dunes and the silting of estuaries can scarcely compensate us. How does the sea work this?
"I should like to see a white marble city on these hills, and on that plain, when all the sand dunes are leveled. Not in our time, perhaps! But, as I told you, I have surrendered myself to the habit of dreaming." Concha shrugged her shoulders and made no reply at the moment.
The following morning he happened to take his walk within sight of the Villa des Dunes, although far enough away to avoid risk of recognition, and saw Percy Roden leave the house shortly after nine to proceed towards the works. Then Tony Cornish lighted a cigarette, and sat down to wait.
The trees themselves were shedding an evening odour, while, from canal and dyke and ditch, there arose that subtle smell of damp weed and grass which hangs over the whole of Holland all night. "The place smells of calamity," said Mrs. Vansittart to herself, as she quitted the carriage and walked quickly along the sandy path to the Villa des Dunes.
What did he do?" "Do? Why, he gave me the key to his front door. He reads with me and tells me what to read. We're great friends!" "Yer 'tarnal specimint!" Billy was shaking. "I see ye've caught the mainland fever, eh, gal? Ye don't want t' bide on the dunes 'long o' old Billy, now, eh?" "You blessed old Cap'n!" Janet struggled to hold her prize. "I'm perfectly happy!
"And they broke into the office. They got at the books. They found out the profits that have been made and they are perfectly wild with fury. They would have wrecked the Villa des Dunes, but " "But they were afraid of you, my dear," said Mr. Wade, filling in the blank that Dorothy left. "Yes," she admitted. "Well played," muttered Marguerite, with shining eyes.
I waited until the supporting column came up, and filmed them also. I followed them up and over the dunes. Deploying along the top, they spread out about six metres apart, with the object of deceiving the Germans as to their numbers, until the supporting column reached them. The battle of musketry then rang out.
So, by an early train next morning, Clarissa, with her nurse and child, left Brussels for Ostend a somewhat dreary place wherein to arrive in early spring-time, with March winds blowing bleak across the sandy dunes. They had to spend a night here, at a second-rate hotel on the Quay. "We must go to humble-looking places, you know, Jane, to make our money last," Clarissa said on the journey.
But best of all was the Angel of the Erg, our desert desert of the shifting dunes, never twice the same, yet always more beautiful to-day than yesterday; treacherous to strangers, but kind as the bosom of a mother to her children.
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