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From Langona church tower you see nothing of the Atlantic but a wedge between two cliffs of a sandy creek. The cottages thirty in all, perhaps huddle in a semicircle of the hills about a spring of clear water, which overflows and leaps as from a platform into the hollow coombe, its conduit down to the sands.
"No o," answered Parson Jack dubiously. Then, "Oh no; on the contrary, I came to ask if you have any books bearing on this part of the world county histories, ecclesiastical histories, and the like especially ecclesiastical histories. I want to read up about Langona." The Rector's eyes twinkled. "This is rather sudden, eh?" "After five-and-twenty years? I suppose it is."
The name of Langarrow, however, may safely be regarded as historic; and this, with its variants of Languna or Langona, is the earliest name that we can trace at Crantock. It proves the existence of a settlement here before the time of St. Carantoc; it seems also to prove the earlier existence of a church. The "garrow" might denote an untraceable St. Garrow or Carrow.
"Why don't you talk, one of you?" George demanded, with his mouth full. Taffy shook himself out of his waking dream "I was wondering where it goes to," he said, and nodded toward the running water. "It goes down to Langona," said George, "and that's just a creek full of sand, with a church right above it in a big grass meadow the queerest small church you ever saw.
Parson Jack walked home with a volume of Gilbert's Survey and another of the Parochial History of Cornwall under his arm, and Parker's Glossary in his skirt pocket. He began that evening with the Parochial History, article "Langona," and smoked his pipe over it till midnight in a sort of rapture it would be hard to analyse.
Vyell demanded that evening, when he discussed the application with his uncle. "I hope you accepted?" said Sir Harry sharply. "Ye-es, though I fear it was imprudent." "Fiddlestick! Speak a word for him to Miles; he won't find a better workman." So Parson Jack stayed at Langona, and beheld his best dream take shape, though not at his command, and yet in part by his fashioning.
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