A Blameless Woman Author:John Strange Winter General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: The International news company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.co... more »m where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XIV. BY THE SIDE OF THE SEA. " Not yet, not yet, the light ; Underground, out of sight, Like moles, we blindly toil." During the following week, Margaret went off with Mrs Luscombe and Adela to Ilockborough, which is one of the most favourite sea-coast places within reasonable reach of Blankhampton. It is not the most fashionable watering- place in Blankshire, for Athington, which is twenty miles nearer to Blankhampton than Rockborough, is one of the most fashionable places in England, a regular spa, where visitors go in their thousands to take cures, to bathe their rheumatic limbs in certain mineral springs which flow out of the tall white cliffs. And many go, as many go to Hom- burg, without any complaint beyond a certain eruption of dress, which necessitates a complete change of toilet at least three times in a day. Athington had, and still has for tbat matter, its great promenade, its cliff gardens, its double bandstand and its double band; its theatre, con- cert-hall, refreshment-rooms and bowling-alley, to say nothing of a dozen superb tennis-courts, and magnificent golfing links, then about the best to be found on the English side of the border. Rockborough, 0i1 the other hand, is but a quiet little fishing-village, with an excrescence in the shape of a west end. It abounds in lovely walks and drives, is peopled by a sturdy, sea-faring race, handsome and stalwart, dignified and very well-bred. Dr Luscombe had taken a suite of rooms in the principal hotel, no great hostelry, for his ladies. He was very well known there, and always...« less