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Hyacinth

CHAPTER XVI
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Perhaps there is a hermit there still, or a primitive lake-dweller.

What is a primitive lake-dweller, Mr.
Conneally ?' Hyacinth was uncertain, but hazarded a suggestion that the lake-dwellers were the people who buried each other in raths.

The Canon, whose archaeology did not go back beyond St.Patrick, offered no correction.
Tea was made later on in yet another bay, this time on the eastern shore of the lake.

An oak wood grew down almost to the water's edge, and the branches overhung a sandy beach, more golden than any sea-strand.

The whole party collected dead wood and broken twigs for the fire.


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