. Harper's young people . acts as a breakwater. For many milesalong the shore in Boston Bay these great walls have beenbuilt. It has cost a great sum of money and many yearsof labor; but the sea is conquered, and the poor old hillsthat were being eaten up have been saved. Hotels andhouses have been built upon them, and thousands of peo-ple go there every summer to roam over the grassy slopes,or along the glorious beaches and by the sea. It is oneof the strangest and most beautiful places on all our coast,for the sea has cut the hills into all sorts of fantastic andlovely shapes, and now it has
. Harper's young people . acts as a breakwater. For many milesalong the shore in Boston Bay these great walls have beenbuilt. It has cost a great sum of money and many yearsof labor; but the sea is conquered, and the poor old hillsthat were being eaten up have been saved. Hotels andhouses have been built upon them, and thousands of peo-ple go there every summer to roam over the grassy slopes,or along the glorious beaches and by the sea. It is oneof the strangest and most beautiful places on all our coast,for the sea has cut the hills into all sorts of fantastic andlovely shapes, and now it has all stopped, and perhaps formany years this curious work of the sea will stand will happen next no one can tell. NAN. AUTHOR op BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE, BARGAIN, AUNT HUTUS TEMPTATION, ETC. CHAPTER IX. T^VERYTHINGr in Mrs. Granges large fine house, the_Cj sudden change in her circumstances, the new clothesand new prospects, had kept Nan very much subdued be-fore they started on their wonderful journey; but by the. PHYLLIS TELLS MISS ROLF ABOUT THE JOURNEY. 54: HATCPETVS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME IV. time they were fairly on the train and Hearing Phyllis Rolf found she had her hands full in keepingpace with her little charge. To begin with, Nans old flib-berty-gibberty ways, as Mrs. Rupert used to call them,had re-asserted themselves. She had to have her hat andher collar and her tie re-arranged half a dozen times, andeven her face washed and her hair brushed twice; andthen she asked Phyllis a dozen questions at a time. Fi-nally Phyllis said, rather peremptorily, Nan, if you willsi^ perfectly still for ten minutes—we shall soon be in Bev-erley—Ill answer some of your questions. They had chairs in the parlor-car, and Nan wheeledhers around with a very bright expression. She wantedto know something more definite of her aunt Letitia andthe house at Beverley. It seemed too bad that it had be-gun to rain, and that it would be .nearly dark when .theygpt there; but
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