She thought she could distinguish her father's castle, and upon it her aged grandmother, with the silver crown on her head, looking through the rushing tide at the keel of the vessel.

她的老祖母头上戴着银子做的皇冠，正高高地站在王宫顶上；她透过激流朝这条船的龙骨了望。

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She thought she could distinguish her father "s castle, and upon it her aged grandmother, with the silver crown on her head, looking through the rushing tide at the keel of the vessel."

她的老祖母头上戴着银子做的皇冠，正高高地站在王宫顶上；她透过激流朝这条船的龙骨了望。

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The children built a castle, of course, but castle-building is rather poor fun when you have no hope of the swishing tide ever coming in to fill up the moat and wash away the drawbridge, and, at the happy last, to wet everybody up to the waist at least.

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