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140 The Channel Islands. all the beauty that surrounded us and made glad the heart. When we returned, the inquisitor with his black pall and dark instrument of torture had retired, and the charmed groups had ceased to attitudinise. ‘They were, indeed, preparing to mount, and before long we were whirling through St. Aubyn’s Bay, making good way towards St. Helier. We entered it by the Esplanade. Elizabeth Castle lay to our right, and the rocky shore was flat and dry and strewed with seaweed. Opposite the circus was the little railway station that rejoiced in the name of Cheapside, and conjured up sudden visions of crowded thoroughfares and the bustle and wear of a great city. As before, the car gradually dismissed its freight, ending with Bree’s Hotel. — ————— SS SSS — eee ST. BRELADE’S BAY. Three days or unalloyed pleasure and profit. Days of wonderful weather : weather that comes to us in our dreams, and in the choicest climes of earth, where even the easterly winds have a kindly touch. We never had any more days like them. Even when the sky was blue, and the sun shone, that nameless, indescribable charm which seems to belong to paradise, and is only now and then lent to earth, was absent. ‘These are the days which haunt us through life, and stand out above others ; and we look back upon them, and feel that the world was fair, and we were young, and all was happiness and hope, and everything would last for ever. And when the days come of realities and disenchantment, when the sunshine has lost its glow for ever, and the moonlight its poetry, we wrap ourselves in the memory of the past, and hope that it will all come back to us in the unseen world of eternal youth, where sorrow and sighing shall flee away. GEomichbooks.co