and the only highway of any importance was the one steep, straggling street which led down to the little harbour. Then, too, all the year round, Glenarva was beautiful. Of that Wilfrid felt sure. But at no time was it so beautiful as in September, when the first russet tints had touched its golden woods, and the light autumn mists threw silvery veils over the distant moorland beyond. So the brothers had come to Glenarva in the last days of September, and Wilfrid had wisely secured rooms beforehand at the house of his former landlady, Lettice Micklewright. Unluckily, the week they chose for their arrival had been marked by a course of equinoctial gales. When, after a tedious journey by rail and coach, the travellers found themselves. landed at the top of a steep hill a mile and a half above Glenarva, the rain fell in torrents, and they had considerable difficulty in removing both themselves and their luggage into shelter. When the next morning they rose, indifferently rested after a night disturbed by the violence of the hurricane, the creaking of doors and shutters, with an occasional interlude of crashing slates, it was still raining. And now, at four o'clock in the afternoon, the rain fell and the wind blew with the same furious violence as ever. It was therefore not to be wondered at if Edgar Wynne had as yet failed to 66 THE LITTLE CHURCH DOOR OPENED AND HE STOOD FACE TO FACE Frontispiece. WITH JULIET NEVIL." Page 82. MISS JULY BY THE AUTHOR OF "UNA CRICHTON" "OUR VALLEY" "THE FORTUNES OF HASSAN" &c. Or anywhere in the sun or rain Is loftiest reach of Hope's bright wings DANTE ROSSETTI ILLUSTRATED BY GORDON BROWNE PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION, APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE 26, ST. GEORGE'S PLACE, HYDE PARK CORNER, S. W. NEW YORK: E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO. 251 735. |