Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I)

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prepared by Sandra Laythorpe. A web page for Charlotte M Yonge can be found at www.menorot.com/cmyonge.htm.

DYNEVOR TERRACE: OR THE CLUE OF LIFE.

Who wisdom's sacred prize would win, Must with the fear of God begin; Immortal praise and heavenly skill Have they who know and do His will. New Version.

Farewell rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies May fare as well as they. BP. CORBET.

An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chesnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her tight, plain cap tresses of flaxen hair that many a beauty might have envied, was banging a cocoa-nut mat, chanting by way of accompaniment in a sort of cadence-

'I have found out a gift for my fur, I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me the plunder forbear, She will say-'

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