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But from the library of Raxton Hall I brought my father's own copy, elaborately bound in the tooled black calf my father affected. The very sight of that black binding now irritated me; never did I pass it without experiencing a sensation that seemed a blending of scorn and fear: scorn of the ancestral superstitions the book gave voice to: fear of them.
She was alluding to the old days at Raxton, when she hoped that some day her little Camaralzaman would be carried by genii to her as she sat thinking of him by the magic llyn. 'The genie who brought me was Sinfi Lovell. But who brought Camaralzaman? That is a question, she said, 'I am dying to have answered. At the name of Sinfi Lovell the past came flowing in.
If the reader does not understand this, it is because he finds it impossible to understand a sorrow like mine. I refused to return to Raxton, and took Mrs. Davies's cottage, which was unoccupied, and lived there throughout the autumn. The peasants and farmers all knew me. 'Sut mae dy galon? 'How is my heart, indeed! I would sigh as I went on my way.
Mivart, Wimpole Street, London." Mr. D'Arcy had told me that the gentleman whose voice I heard behind the screen was the medical man who attended to me during my illness, and it now suddenly flashed upon my mind that at Raxton there was a Dr. Mivart, though I had never seen him during my stay there.
'You must indeed have been ill you must now be very ill to suppose you are at Raxton. 'But what are we doing here? I said. 'How did we come here? 'Let Badoura speak for herself only, she said, with that arch smile of hers.
She felt, and rightly felt, that the loss of Winifred among the Welsh hills had been due to her harshness in sending the stricken girl away from Raxton, to say nothing of her breaking her word with me after having promised to take my place and watch for the exposure of the cross by the wash of the tides until the danger was certainly past.
He was for ever peeping furtively into his escritoire to enjoy the sight of them, and then looking over his shoulder to see if he was being watched by my mother, though she was far away in Raxton Hall. On the night in question he showed me the silver casket containing certain of these mementos mementos which I felt to be almost too intimate to be shown even to his son.
I'm glad to see you back, Miss Wynne, for she was now neither child nor young woman, she was a 'girl. Perhaps I had better rush up to her in a bluff, hearty way, and say: 'How do you do, Miss Winifred? Delighted to see you back to Raxton. Finally, I decided that circumstance must guide me entirely, and I sat upon the boulder meditating.
I tried to take in the ensemble. In vain! Nothing but the face and figure of Winifred crowned with seaweed as in the Raxton photograph could stay for the thousandth part of a second upon my eyes. 'Wilderspin, I said, 'I cannot do the picture justice at this moment. I must see it again after I have seen her. Where is she? Can I not see her now? 'You cannot. 'Can I not see her to-day?
Perhaps even within the last few centuries the spot called Mousetrap Cove, scooped out of the peninsula on which the old church stands, was dry land. The old Raxton church at the end of this peninsula had, not many years since, to be deserted for a new one, lest it should some day carry its congregation with it when it slides, as it soon will slide, into the sea.
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