d forth in crowds; you could
not tell whether they were the white waves coming ashore, or bits of
snow going to sea. A single fragment of ship-timber, black with time and
weeds, and crusty with barnacles, heaved to and fro in the edge of the
surf, and two fishermen's children, a boy and girl, tilted upon it as it
moved, clung with the semblance of terror to each other, and played at
shipwreck.

The rocks were dark with moisture, steaming in the sun. Great sheets of
ice, white masks of departing winter, clung to every projecting cliff,
or slid with crash and shiver into the surge. Icicles dropped their slow
and reverberating tears upon the rock where Emilia once lay breathless;
and it seemed as if their cold, chaste drops were sent to cleanse from
her memory each scarlet stain, and leave it virginal and pure.

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