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and drank and warmed themselves, full of lightheartedness and gayety, for more than half an hour.

At length, at five minutes before four, the omnibus drove up to the door, and the bugle sounded. Grimkie rang the bell and paid the bill, and then they all took their seats in the omnibus and rode back to the town.

CHAPTER XIX

A DRIVE.

THE next day Mrs. Morelle said that she was ready for another excursion, but she preferred to go in a carriage, and Florence and John had given such a glowing description of Mont Orgueil and of the little town of Gorey at the foot of it, that she had a great desire to go in that direction.

The children were all much pleased with this plan, as it would give them an opportunity to see the castle again. But Grimkie said if they went in a carriage they could go much farther than to Mont Orgueil, and after studying the map and the guide-book a little while, he proposed that they should go first to Mont Orgueil and then to Boulay Bay.

Boulay Bay is situated on the northern shore of the island, almost exactly opposite to St. Helier, and as Mont Orgueil is near the middle of the eastern side, Mrs. Morelle saw by the map that the excursion which Grimkie proposed would take them diagonally across the eastern

end of the island in two directions--first toward the northeast to Mont Orgueil, and then toward the northwest from Mont Orgueil to Boulay Bay. From the latter place they would return home by a road leading through the heart of the island, thus completing the triangle.

Mrs. Morelle liked this plan very much, for it would not only give her a view of the interior of the island, by taking her through the very heart of it in three directions-but would also bring her out upon the shores, and so enable her to view the coast scenery on two new sides of it.

Grimkie and John obtained a carriage for this excursion from a livery stable which they found in a side street near their lodgings. They took care to get an open carriage, so that they could see well all around them as they rode along. Mrs. Morelle and Florence occupied the back seat and Grimkie the front. John was very earnest to ride outside with the coachman, and Mrs. Morelle consented to this arrangement, which in the end proved to be advantageous to the whole party, for John, being seated so near to the coachman, could talk with him very easily, and he asked him questions continually about everything that he saw, and whenever he learned anything which he thought it would be interest

ing for his mother and the thers to know, he turned round and told them.

The carriage, in leaving tle town, ascended a very winding and extremely pretty road, which seemed to follow the course of a valley, and was bordered on both sides by handsome houses and villas, with beautiful lawns and gardens full of shrubbery and flowers in full autumnal bloom before and around them. Here and there great gates were open, showing a nicely finished gravel road winding up through pretty plantations to the house. In some places the road was bordered with a low wall of masonry, the top of the wall being surmounted with a rich green hedge, and in others the wall was formed of the native rock, which had been cut away in making the road, and trimmed by the workmen to a surface almost as true as that of the masonry. Indeed in many places along these roads the masonry and the native rock, all alike darkened by time and overgrown with moss and ivy, are so blended together where they join, that it is often difcult to see where nature ends and art begins.

John, from his elevated seat, kept a good lookout over the surrounding country, and whenever he saw anything remarkable, or obtained any special information of the coachman, he turned

round and communicated the intelligence to the party in the carriage.

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Mother," said he, after they had been about ten minutes on the road, "that is the Government House."

So saying John pointed to a great gate which led into a kind of park or pleasure ground, and a broad gravel walk, leading into the park in a winding direction, toward a place where there were glimpses of a large and elegant mansion among the trees. The gate came into view as the carriage was ascending a winding road which led up out of the valley.

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Ah," said Mrs. Morelle, turning at the same time to look at the place.

"What is the Government House ?" asked Florence.

"It is the house where the governor resides, I suppose," said Mrs. Morelle. "Jersey is an English island and it has an English governor, and this is the house which the government at home provide for him to live in.”

As they came up the winding road they soon reached a place where several ways met. Here there was an inn, having a long sign over the whole front of it, ST. SAVIOUR'S INN, and several little shops, and houses at the corners, formed by the meeting of the different roads, and beyond

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