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But you will have to be busy all , for it is like enough to rain within an hour -- the tide will bring it , I 'll warrant . '' `` I will wear my waterproof . Mother , dear , I do want a little change so much -- just to see some new faces and hear tell of the St. Penfer people . '' `` Well , then , go your way , Denas , a wetting will do you no harm ; and I do know the days be long days , and the nights do never seem to come to midnight and then wear to cock-crow . ` Twould be a whist poor life , my dear , if this life were all . '' Denas was now very anxious to get off before her father came back from his afternoon gossip at the boats . With a gay heart she left her home and hastened to St. Penfer to execute the things that had been her ostensible reason for the visit .