PERSEVERE AND PROSPER.

to the garden of the old Court, or Manor
House.

Fanny made a sign to Arthur to stand
still while she went on first to reconnoitre.
She sprung to the top of the wall with the
ease of a girl who was quite used to the
high step, and looked anxiously round on
the other side.

“Not here!” she exclaimed. “I thought
they would be sure to be sitting by the
brook. Come, and look at it, Arthur. This
is my favourite place! I do think it is the
very prettiest corner in all Fairdown. This
is the end of the garden. There’s the
brook, and there’s the sweet, sweet clover
field on the other side; and this is the
Brook Lawn.”

Arthur jumped up beside her, and looked,
and looked, and thought he should never be
tired of looking. Then they jumped down
the mossy steps of the Breach on to the
level greensward below.

This was another small lawn about the
size of the one by the side of the house,

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