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The lady whom I had married abode with h, and looked the world in the face She seldom went from home, but when she did take the air it ith poure and exquisite face, set off by as rich apparel as could be bought froht in by the Southa man who had been to the wars, and had escaped the wheel by the skin of his teeth, appeared in the street, sreater commotion arose than had been since the days of the Princess Pocahontas and her train of dusky beauties To this fairer, old lace doffed its hat andplanters bent to their saddlebohile the coed and stared and had their say The beauty, the grace, the pride, that deigned small response to well-meant words,--all that would have been intolerable in plain Mistress Percy, once a waiting maid, then a piece of merchandise to be sold for one hundred and twenty pounds of tobacco, then the wife of a poor gentleh, the ward of the King, the bride to be (so soon as the King's Court of High Commission should have snapped in twain an inconvenient and ill-welded fetter) of the King's h the street perhaps once a week On Sundays she ith me to church, and the people looked at her instead of at the minister, who rebuked them not, because his eyes were upon the saan to turn, and still all things were as they had been, save that the Asseesses went back to their hundreds, but my house at Weyanoke knew etic, but firm, the Governor had told h to stay, I assured him,--as indeed I was At Weyanoke, the thunderbolt would fall without warning; at Ja up the river, the sails of the Due Return or what other ship the Coht send

The color of the leaves deepened, and there caular and sad, like a ss, near and far, the forest where it reat river, and the strea a blue haze, soft and dream-like The forest beca canopy and an ever thickening carpet of cri underfoot and a slow rain of color It was neither cold nor hot, but very quiet, and the birds went by like shadows,--a listless and forgetful weather, in which we began to look, every hour of every day, for the sail which we knee should not see for weeks to come