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Audrey, in her brown dress, with the color yet in her cheeks, entering at

the moment, Mistress Deborah attempted no response to her husband's

adjuration Darden turned to the girl "I've done with the writing for

the nonce, child," he said, "and need you no longer I'll smoke a pipe and

think of my sermon You're tired; out with you into the sunshine! Go to

the wood or down by the creek, but not beyond call, d'yeThere were s in the world of other people which she did not understand; one

thing reat difference But she did understand the

sunlit roof, the twilight halls, the patterned floor of the forest

Blosso shadows, voices of wind and water, and all

e of her land;

when she stepped out of the door into the air and faced the portals of her

world, they called to her to coht of foot, she

answered to their piping The orchard through which she ran was fair with

its rosy trees, like gayly dressed curtsying dames; the slow, clear creek

that held the double of the sky enticed, but she passed it by Straight as

an arrow she pierced to the heart of the wood that lay to the north Thorn

and bra vine, stayed her not; long