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She did not wear the covert coat of the ht about her She was

young with every emphasis of youth A pair of dark

blue eyes exaood terms with the sun-I rejoiced in the

brown of her cheeks, so eloquent of companionship with

the outdoor world-a certificate indeed of the favor of

Heaven Show irl with a face of

tan, whose hands have plied a paddle or driven a golf-ball

or cast a fly beneath the blue arches of summer,

and I will suffer her scorn in joy She hter, for hers

are the privileges of the sisterhood of Diana; and that

soft bronze, those daring fugitive freckles beneath her

eyes, link her to times when Pan whistled upon his reed

and all the days were long

She had approached silently and was enjoying, I felt

sure,taken unawares

I had snatched off , I ht in the unwarrantable inspection of another person's

property-particularly a person so wholly pleasing

to the eye

"Really, if you don't need that paddle any more-"

I looked down and found toupon it with a cool

air of proprietorship