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She rode on with her head bent as one who considers deeply, but I,

knowing her well, knew that the mood would soon pass, as it did

Suddenly she tossed her head and flung out her curls to the breeze,

and swung Merry Roger's bridle-rein, and ay at a gallop and I

after her, hbred In this fashion we soon left the plodding blacks so

far behind that they became a part of the distance-shadows Then,

all at once, Mistress Mary swerved off fro to the plantation-wharf, whence all

the tobacco was shipped for England and all the merchandise imported

for household use unladen There the as very wet and the h upon Mistress Mary's fine tabby skirt, but she

rode on at a reckless pace, and I also, much at a loss to knohat

had co to

inquire And then I sahat she had doubtless seen before, the

the trees with that

stiffness and straightness of dead wood, which is beyond that of

live, unless, indeed, in a storm at sea, when the wind can so

inspirit it, that I have seen aof its hundred years on the spur of a mountain