It -- it has made me feel more like other people , you know , dear . '' Miss Sally 's Company `` How beautiful ! '' said Mary Seymour delightedly , as they dismounted from their wheels on the crest of the hill . `` Ida , who could have supposed that such a view would be our reward for climbing that long , tedious hill with its ruts and stones ? Do n't you feel repaid ? '' `` Yes , but I am dreadfully thirsty , '' said Ida , who was always practical and never as enthusiastic over anything as Mary was . Yet she , too , felt a keen pleasure in the beauty of the scene before them . Almost at their feet lay the sea , creaming and shimmering in the mellow sunshine . Beyond , on either hand , stretched rugged brown cliffs and rocks , here running out to sea in misty purple headlands , there curving into bays and coves that seemed filled up with sunlight and glamour and pearly hazes ; a beautiful shore and , seemingly , a lonely one . The only house visible from where the girls stood was a tiny grey one , with odd , low eaves and big chimneys , that stood down in the little valley on their right , where the cliffs broke away to let a brook run out to sea and formed a small cove , on whose sandy shore the waves lapped and crooned within a stone 's throw of the house . On either side of the cove a headland made out to sea , curving around to enclose the sparkling water as in a cup . `` What a picturesque spot ! '' said Mary . `` But what a lonely one ! '' protested Ida . `` Why , there is n't another house in sight . I wonder who lives in it . Anyway , I 'm going down to ask them for a drink of water . '' `` I 'd like to ask for a square meal , too , '' said Mary , laughing . `` I am discovering that I am hungry .
Fine scenery is very satisfying XXXXX the soul , to be sure , but it does n't still the cravings of the inner girl .
On as at before from in like that to within