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Kitty Trenire

CHAPTER XVIII
15/24

I never was so happy in my life, and never enjoyed my holidays before." It was a very simple holiday too, but each day was full of happiness.
One by one the four introduced Pamela to their best-beloved haunts.
They made excursions to Wenmere Woods, to Helbarrow Tors, to the moors and the river.

Very frequently, too, some of them went for drives with Dr.Trenire far out into the country, over wild moorland, or through beautiful valleys, and Pamela loved these drives as much as anything, and felt she could listen for hours while the doctor told her the story of some old cairn, or the legend of a holy well or wayside cross.
Once they all went to Newquay to visit Aunt Pike and Anna, and spent a long, glorious day on the beautiful sands, paddling in and out of the rock pools in search of rare sea-weeds, and anemones, and shells.
"I didn't know your aunt was so old," said Pamela later, when she and Kitty were talking over the events of the day.

"You did not tell me she was." "No," said Kitty thoughtfully, "I didn't think she was.

I noticed it to-day myself, but I never did before.

She does look quite old, doesn't she ?" appealing to Pamela, as though still doubting her own eyes.
"I don't think she looked so last term.


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