How beautiful, said Mary Seymour delightedly, as they dismounted from their wheels on the crest of the hill.

Ida, who could have supposed that such a view would be our reward for climbing that long, tedious hill with its ruts and stones.

Don't you feel repaid?

Yes, but I am dreadfully thirsty, said Ida, who was always practical, and never as enthusiastic over anything as Mary was.

Yet she, too, felt a keen pleasure in the beauty of the scene before them.

Almost at their feet lay the sea, creaming and shimmering in the mellow sunshine.

Beyond, on either hand, stretched rugged brown cliffs and rocks, here running out to the sea in misty purple headlands, there, curving into bays and coves,

that seemed filled up with sunlight and glamour and pearly hazes.

A beautiful shore, and seemingly a lonely one.

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