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Then I thought that if she had been like Minnie, or even cousin Alice, I might have ventured to replace the protecting arm, but there was something about Grace Carrington that made one treat her, as it were, with reverence. When we drew up in front of Starcross House a carriage with flashing lamps stood in the drive; I had seen those lights coming down the opposite side of the valley.
The ten miles passed in what seemed to be scarcely as many minutes, and the rush through the damp air for the rain had ceased at last raised my companion's spirits, and she chatted merrily; then, just as we reached the crest of a steep dip into the Starcross valley, the Devil must take fright at a colored railway light that he had often seen before.
It is only because I love you, and have done so from the day we talked together on Starcross Moor it seems so long ago. Listen yet.
Then the bald heights of Starcross Moor rose up before me, and Grace came lightly across the heather chanting a song, with her hat flung back, and the west wind kissing her face into delicate color, until a tramp of footsteps drew nearer down the track.
He instantly perceived her thought, and replied with a touch of dignity and a proud smile: "On the contrary, it has been a great failure; only three hundred and nine copies have been sold." "I wonder at that," said Freda, "for one so often heard it talked of." He promptly changed the topic, and began to speak of the march past. "I want to see Lord Starcross," he added.
H. Tupman, in the Ernest, swam round the Bight on the west side of the Warren, passing the ships anchored therein, and hugging the west shore of the Exe, paused finally under the lodge at the further end of Starcross at 5.45 p.m., having, in logic swum the distance of two-and-a-quarter miles in twenty-three minutes.
"It amuses me," I said to her, "that Derrick Vaughan should be so anxious to see Lord Starcross. It reminds me of Charles Lamb's anxiety to see Kosciusko, 'for, said he, 'I have never seen a hero; I wonder how they look, while all the time he himself was living a life of heroic self-sacrifice." "Mr.
"Well, Ralph, what is it now?" he asked. "Johnson of Starcross has been telling me some tale about your running away with an heiress and giving his answer to Colonel Carrington. I'm not altogether sorry. I do not like that man. There is also a reason why he doesn't like me." "It has nothing to do with that, sir," I answered awkwardly.
Subsequently a great stillness was encountered, until Starcross was neared and passed; the boat, swimmer and pilot lying finally becalmed at the point aforesaid. From the WESTERN DAILY PRESS, Sept. 15th, 1903.
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