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Her surroundings see sun overhead

in the cloudless sky, the shiround, the feathery outline of so palm trees in a tiny

distant oasis were like reladness that was fuller and deeper than anything that she

had been conscious of before She was radiantly happy--happy in the

sense of her youth and strength, her perfect physical fitness, happy in

the capacity of her power of enjoyment, happy with the touch of the

keen, nervous horse between her knees, exhilarated with her new

authority She had looked forward so eagerly, and realisation was

proving infinitely greater than anticipation And for a whole ht of her proive up the joyous freedom of the desert for

the commonplace round of Aht of the weeks in New York were frankly tedious; Newport would be

a little less bad, for there were alleviations The only hope was that

Aubrey would find the wife he was looking for quickly and release her

fro to be very weariso to let him down; she would

have to keep her prolad when it was over