This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...not yet up. The green blinds of the Blethin Hotel showed general sleepiness. Even the unfortunate person whose duty it was to clean multitudinous boots, had probably not yet turned out of bed. On they went, Brodspeare and Jack and Tom Drax, in the j oiliest mood. The rocks were dry; the sea was blue; a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...not yet up. The green blinds of the Blethin Hotel showed general sleepiness. Even the unfortunate person whose duty it was to clean multitudinous boots, had probably not yet turned out of bed. On they went, Brodspeare and Jack and Tom Drax, in the j oiliest mood. The rocks were dry; the sea was blue; a few gulls hovered above them, their azure plumage showing their parentage; the world was de-liciously quiet. Brodspeare had lyrics in his brain all the way. They came at length to the point which he had mentioned the day before, where rock-caverns made natural dressing-rooms around a beautiful arena of steadfast sand, over which the sea came with delicate ripples. ' There's a way down here/ said Brod-speare, pointing to a path between two great rocks. ' Come along. It's easy enough.' It was not very difficult; still, it rather reminded Tom Drax of the saying, ' He who will climb Tintagel must have eyes.' They had just arrived at a difficult part, and both the Draxes were gathering words of ire to shower on Brodspeare, when his lordship said: ' Hist! Keep still. Look below.' Right in the centre of the bay there was a high rock, a noble block of granite covered with sea-green vraic, which slanted towards the shore, and was perpendicular on the seaward side. When Brodspeare checked his companions, a figure emerged from one of the caverns, ran across the sands, raced up the slant side of the rock, and took a glorious header into the advancing tide. Utterly unconscious of any spectators, the girl (for it was a girl) sprang into the embrace of ocean, and swam out to sea. Her brown curls on the surface of the wave were all they could see of her. She swam as if she knew and loved the ocean. ' We must go and bathe somewhere else, ' said Jack Drax...
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