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Melbourne House, Volume 1

CHAPTER I
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Naturally their quest led them to the thicker and wilder grown part of the wood; prettier there, they declared it to be, where the ground became broken, and there were ups and downs, and rocky dells and heights, and to turn a corner was to come upon something new.

They did not note nor care where they went, intent upon business and pleasure together, till they came out suddenly upon a little rocky height, where a small spot was shaded with cedars and set with benches around and under them.

The view away off over the tops of the trees to other heights and hills in the distance was winningly fair, especially as the sun shewed it just now in bright, cool light and shadow.

It was getting near sundown.
"Look where we are!" cried Nora, "at the Sunday-school!" Daisy seated herself without answering.
"I think," went on Nora, as she followed the example, "it is the very prettiest place for a Sunday-school that there ever was." "Have you been in other Sunday-schools ?" asked Daisy.
"Yes, in two." "What were they like ?" "O they were in a church, or in some sort of a room.

I like being out of doors best; don't you ?" "Yes, I think so.


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