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many), had a look of southern untidiness, Nature 
being left much more to herself than in the north. 
Large camellia trees were in the borders, and on 
Christmas-day I gathered a nosegay that would 
not have disgraced midsummer. The house I 
inhabited had a terrace in front, with a lawn 
sloping down to an orchard, over the bloom of 
which you looked on the sparkling sea. To the 
left were St. Michael's Mount and Marazion ; to 
the right, the fishing viUage of Newlyn and the 
sweep of rocks by Mousehole. 
But I am leaving the Ferns unnoticed too long, 
and they will lead me into many a well-remem- 
bered spot, and take me amongst fishers and 
miners, who had always a kindly word for the 
stranger, that often and often left her the wiser 
for its speaking ; and we cannot say as much for 
all the conversation we hear in drawing-rooms. 
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