Orphan Dinah

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Excerpt from Orphan DinahIn this hour, after noon on a day of mid September, the light was changing, not gradually at the sun's proper declension, but under the forces of a south-west wind bringing up vapour at twenty miles an hour from the distant sea.From the rounded and weathered masses of the Beacon, the hill s10ped abruptly and a receding foreground of dying fern and grey, granite boulders broke on a gap of such extent that earth, reappearing far below, was already washed by the milky azure of the air, through which It glimmered and receded and presently again rose to lofty lands beyond. ...