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But we'll manage it, and you shall jump over the Stryd." Then he told her the story how the youth was drowned and how the monks moaned; and he got away to other legends, to the white doe of Rylston, and Landseer's picture of the abbey in olden times. She had heard nothing before of these things, or indeed of such things, and the hearing them was very sweet to her.
The Stryd is a narrow gully or passage, which the waters have cut for themselves in the rocks, perhaps five or six feet broad, where the river passes, but narrowed at the top by an overhanging mass which in old days withstood the wearing of the stream, till the softer stone below was cut away, and then was left bridging over a part of the chasm below.
After a while she was able to forget her difficulties, to cease to think of Daniel, and to find in her cousin, not a lover, but simply the pleasantest friend that fortune had ever sent her. And so they came, all alone, for Aunt Julia, though both limbs and mind were strong, had not been able to keep up with them, all alone to the Stryd.
"You go away and don't tease, or else I'll never bring you to the Stryd again." So it happened that Lord Lovel and Lady Anna went across the meadow together, down to the river, and sauntered along the margin till they came to the stepping-stones. He passed over, and she followed him, almost without a word. Her heart was so full, that she did not think now of the water running at her feet.
Might they not climb up among those woods on the opposite bank? Lord Lovel declared that, of course they would climb up among the woods, it was for that purpose they had come. That was the way to the Stryd, over which he was determined that Lady Anna should be made to jump.
"Anna sprained her ankle, jumping over the Stryd," said Minnie. "Not seriously, I hope." "Oh dear no; nothing at all to signify." It was the only word which Anna spoke till it was suggested that she should go up to her room. The girl obeyed, as a child might have done, and went up-stairs, followed by Mrs. Lovel. "My dear," she said, "we cannot go on like this. What is the matter?"
The curate immediately hurried back, jumping over the Stryd as the nearest way to the inn; and Minnie also sprung across the stream so that she might sit down beside her cousin and offer consolation. Aunt Julia was left alone, and after a while was forced to walk back by herself to the bridge. "Is she much hurt?" asked Minnie. "I am afraid she is hurt," said the lord.
Then Aunt Julia, and the curate, and Minnie were standing on the rock within a few paces of them, but on the other side of the stream. "Is there anything the matter?" asked Miss Lovel. "She has sprained her ankle in jumping over the Stryd, and she cannot walk. Perhaps Mr. Cross would not mind going back to the inn and getting a carriage.
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