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More ambitious than they, he proceeded to construct chiefly for the sake of the moat he intended to draw around it a sand-castle of considerable pretensions; but the advancing tide drove him from his stronghold before he had begun to dig the projected fosse. "As they returned home, they passed a group of fishermen in their long boots and flapped sou'-westers, looking somewhat anxiously seaward.
He became depressed and yet more depressed by the fact that the prince was playing to an audience; for all the respectful and admiring nurses edged down the beach to behold him play; and those of them whose little charges were playing in the same game with him, assumed insufferable airs. After a while the children tired of rounders and betook themselves to building a sand-castle.
He smiled benignly on the destruction of the castles; plainly he felt that his young charge was treating the so-soon-to-be-subjugated English in the right spirit. There was only one check to the royal progress. The sand-castle on which Pollyooly and Kathleen had worked so hard stood directly in the line of it.
They poured down into Greece; they, poured down through Gaul and Spain into Africa; into Italy; host after host of them; civilization was a pathetic sand-castle washed over and over by ruining seas.
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