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emerald grass, and ricli red fallow fields, and parks 

 full of stately timber trees. Long lines of tall elms, 

 just flushing green in the spring hedges, run down 

 to the very water's edge, their boughs unwarped 

 by any blast ; here and there apple orchards are 

 just bursting into flower in the soft sunshine, and 

 narrow strips of water-meadow line the glens, where 

 the red cattle are already lounging knee-deep in 

 richest grass, within ten yards of the rocky pebble 

 beach. The shore is silent now, the tide far out : 

 but six hours hence it will be hurling columns of 

 rosy foam high into the sunlight, and sprinkling 

 passengers, and cattle, and trim gardens which 

 hardly know what frost and snow may be, but see 

 the flowers of autumn meet the flowers of spring, 

 and the old year linger smilingly to twine a garland 

 for the new. 



ISTo wonder that such a spot as Torquay, with its 

 delicious Italian climate, and endless variety of rich 

 woodland, flowery lawn, fantastic rock-cavern, and 

 broad bright tide-sand, sheltered from every wind 

 of heaven except the soft south-east, should have 



