The Buccaneers
The Buccaneers
“After their early swim the morning had turned so damp and foggy that Miss Testvalley said to Nan: “I believe this would be a good day for me to drive over to Polwhelly and call at the vicarage. You can sit in the garden a little while if the sun comes out.”
The vicarage at Polwhelly had been Miss Testvalley’s chief refuge during her long lonely months at Tintagel with her Folyat pupils, and Nan knew that she wished to visit her old friends. As for Nan herself, after the swim and the morning wal...k, she preferred to sit in the inn garden, sheltered by a tall fuchsia hedge, and gaze out over the headlands and the sea. She had not even expressed the wish to take the short walk along the cliffs to the ruins of Tintagel; and she had apparently forgotten Miss Testvalley’s offer to show her the modern castle of the same name. She seemed neither listless nor unwell, the governess thought, but lulled by the strong air, and steeped in a lazy beatitude; and this was the very mood Miss Testvalley had sought to create in her.MoreLess
The vicarage at Polwhelly had been Miss Testvalley’s chief refuge during her long lonely months at Tintagel with her Folyat pupils, and Nan knew that she wished to visit her old friends. As for Nan herself, after the swim and the morning wal...k, she preferred to sit in the inn garden, sheltered by a tall fuchsia hedge, and gaze out over the headlands and the sea. She had not even expressed the wish to take the short walk along the cliffs to the ruins of Tintagel; and she had apparently forgotten Miss Testvalley’s offer to show her the modern castle of the same name. She seemed neither listless nor unwell, the governess thought, but lulled by the strong air, and steeped in a lazy beatitude; and this was the very mood Miss Testvalley had sought to create in her.MoreLess
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