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Excerpt from Two Penniless Princesses
The battlements of a castle were, in disturbed times, the only recreation-ground of the ladies and play place Of the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the No1th Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent View, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail ¿eeting before the Wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing the green summits, and below, the tossing waves breaking white against the dark rocks, and the dis tance becoming more and more hazy, in spite of the bright sun which made a broken path of glory along the tossing, white-crested waters.
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