The Cost of Caergwyn Author:Mary Botham Howitt Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 61 CHAPTER IV. Two days after this excursion Godfrey left for Merionethshire, his last words to the girls being: " You must not forget that I have a gue... more »st-chamber in my house at Pentre-cwm. But if you will both come and see me it will be infinitely better. I can find you very good amusement for a week, and we will then go together to Hugh Lloyd's pulpit." Hugh Lloyd's pulpit was a sort of by-word amongst them, meaning the extreme of everything, whether of fine scenery, " the divine awen," or whatever else was superlatively Welsh. The girls were delighted, and declared they would " Then also," said Nesta, " you must take us to the Beddau-Gwyr-Ardudwy, or the Graves of the Men of Ardudwy, and the Maiden's Lake. You must see these, Anna, because I am going to write a poem about them, as Sir Walter Scott will not." " You shall be our guide," said Godfrey, " you shall show us everything! " Prououncod Pentrc-coom. When Godfrey was gone, Anthony Wichelo took up his quarters much more permanently at Birllan- deg, and Dr Wynne in the course of a week paid his first visit. " I cannot spare you now, Nesta," said Anna, the day after his arrival,'" you see how completely he absorbs me. I can think of nothing but him whilst he is here. You must stay and bear grandpapa company. He likes you so much, and it would make me miserable to see him maundering about the garden by himself." ISTesta stayed; and such a gay, new life began at old Birllan-deg as was wonderful. Dr Wynne, in his quiet, gentlemanly way, set the whole little world round him in movement, and every one drawn within the sphere of his influence seemed, like Anna herself, to become his slave. Sometimes they made great riding parties, Anthony Wichelo, who borrowed a horse from Hentref, joining them,...« less