Helier's

The beach dog emerged from the garden wearing a wreath of roses around his neck, with an open pink silk parasol fastened to his collar and tipped at a fashionable and coquettish angle over his head and holding firmly in his mouth the handle of a basket filled with as varied an assortment of English "sweets" as Max could secure in his hasty gallop into St. Helier's.

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Noirmont Terrace, greatly amazing not only St. Aubin's staid population but such inhabitants of St. Helier's as chanced to be on the water front, and affording Roger two full moments of complete and exquisite satisfaction.

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"I haven't been to St. Helier's often," Edith confided.

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"And a good job, too, when you have a tide that goes out of sight," commented Frances approvingly, as she looked at the two huge masonry walls near St. Helier's, set in the expanse of wet sand.

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But if the train into St. Helier's crawled, the one to Gorey snailed, to quote Roger.

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Mont Orgueil is reached by a miniature railway leading from St. Helier's to the fishing village of Gorey.

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"Look, there comes the train from St. Helier's!" exclaimed Roger, dancing excitedly about.

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The Colonel was in St. Helier's and Constance entertaining a group of young people on the lawn.

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It's no good now as a fortification, because Fort Regent up above St. Helier's -- over there on the cliffs -- could knock Castle Elizabeth and all those warships into fits in no time.

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It was a St. Helier's fly, driving at a tremendous pace in the direction from which she had come.

Vixen, Volume III. 1875