The Harbour folk shook their heads over this . There was something wrong with a man who read books when there was a plenty of other amusements . Jacob Radnor had read books all one winter and had drowned himself in the spring -- jumped overboard from his dory at the herring nets . And that was what came of books , mark you . The Camerons came later to Dalveigh the next summer , on account of John Cameron 's health , which was not good . It was the first of August before a host of servants came to put Dalveigh in habitable order , and a week later the family came . They brought a houseful of guests with them . At sunset on the day of her arrival Nora Shelley looked out cross the harbour to the fishing village . She was tired after her journey , and she had not meant to go over until the morning , but now she knew she must go at once . Her mother was over there ; the old life called to her ; the northwest wind swept up the channel and whistled alluringly to her at the window of her luxurious room . It brought to her the tang of the salt wastes and filled her heart with a great , bitter-sweet yearning . She was more beautiful than ever . In the year that had passed she had blossomed out to a gracious fulfilment of womanhood . Even the Camerons had wondered at her swift adaptation to her new surroundings . She seemed to have put Racicot behind her as one puts by an old garment . In everything she had held her own royally . Her adopted parents were proud of her beauty and her nameless , untamed charm . They had lavished every indulgence upon her . In those few short months she had lived more keenly and fully than in all her life before . The Nora Shelley who went away was not , so it would seem , the Nora Shelley who came back .
But when she looked from her window to the waves and saw the star XXXXX the lighthouse and the blaze of the sunset in the window of the fishing-houses and heard the summons of the wind , something broke loose in her soul and overwhelmed her , like a wave of the sea .
In after as at by from of over so until