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CHAPTER ^
HER
IV.
WELCOjVIE. SPOKE IN
FALTERING
PHRASE.' '
There
ilrs.
is
Henry
Kniglit, I declare
!'
said
Swancourt one day.
They were gazing from
the jutting angle
of a wild enclosure not far from the Crags,
which ahnost overhung the valley already described as leading up from the sea and little
port of Stranton.
The stony
escarp-
ment upon which they stood had the tour of a man's face, and "with furze as field
with a beard.
it
con-
was covered
People in the
above were preserved from an
dental roll
do^ai
acci-
and
these prominences
hollows by a hedge
on the very
crest,
which was doing that kindly service Elfride
for
and her mother now.
Scrambling higher into the hedge and
