of delighted surprise, like a blackbird startled, she pushed seaward for joy of the effort, thinking she could exult i

shore. The swim, and Matey Weyburn pursuing her passed up, out of happiness, through the spheres of delirium, into the region where our life is as we

she heard his voice. Was it her name? He was not so drunken of the sea as she: he had not leapt out of bondage int

, and he had shackled its gift of freedom. She turned to float, gathering her knees for the funny sullen kick, until she heard

was able to bring down on her: she swam bravely,

allel, he said: 'What se

of her ecstasy in

own

anted; their heads were wate

om school; we

e a ki

wave going t

he ro

Brent broad meadow

Miss Vincen

ves; they 're si

the deep in his first of May mor

cted to owe t

braced Aminta, that she might nerve all her power

morning like this? You w

coach. I made friends wit

ould have dreamed--? A

rightly understood her; but he said: 'You 'r

and te

, at piano-work of the octave-shake, was touched and

riton

hy

going

es

s of th

ll

say, "Browny-Matey

im,' and after two strok

Weyb

ow

t f

y w

own way. We 're sea- birds. We 've said adieu t

way

going t

so l

spirit it. Browny was allowed place a little foremost, a

und for

right: South-east b

ker

to be picked

l dec

e I can

sure

dy to be savoured in the mind, they thought; and s

and had not broken her fast, and had talked much, for a sea-nymph,

' he said: 'we'll

l conceit of her powers and incre

feeling tire

t I!' sped through his limbs; he had a

ked at the habit of obedience. Her stroke of the arms pau

water shocked at her chin, and curled round the under lip. He had a faint anxiety; and, not so sensible of a weight in the sight of land as she was, he chattered, by snatc

holiday; and silence, too, might hint at fatigue. She began to think her muteness lost her the bloom of the enchantment, robbing her of her heavenly frolic lead, since friend Matey resolved to be as eminently good in salt

fied I swim w

with me if we ra

was out fo

you for England.' She

ed our back

mony was

he

spoke of it an

Matey

ny Fa

ey! she'

's h

hat our holiday's not over.

n earth will live

ike it. I could go unde

; teach him to speak you

t,-heard "Matey,"-nev

tth

int

welling of her blood: 'my strength will leave me. I may play-not you: y

quarter o

magine m

re, hold

I'm for

f silver and bubbles, an

ory of events be

, stopped her playfulness. The pleasure she still knew was a recollection of the outward swim, when she had been privileged to cast away sex with the push from earth, as few

here was yet a space of salt water between her and shore; and sh