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NEARER and nearer the sea approached the cliffs; on-on it came, until at length a little rippling wave out-did its fellows and flowed in almost to the children's feet. Polly uttered a shriek of terror, and clutched her cousin by the arm.
"Oh, Edgar, we shall be drowned! " she wailed. "What can we do? Oh, what can we do?"