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gallop, and was soon up with the toiling lady She stopped when she

heard hi and a

little flushed, and never took her eyes off hinalled from her

brown eyes, which atchful, but by no means timid He remembered

afterwards that they had been apt to fall easily into set stares, and

thus to give her a bold look which seeh he could not see this now, and though he had no taste

for women, it was certain she was handsome in a profuse way She had a

broad full bust; her skin, dazzling white at the neck, ran into golden

russet before it reached the burnt splendour of her cheeks; herand curved up at the corners, had lips rich and crimson;

of which, however, the upper was short to a fault, and so curled back

as to give her, a pettish or fretful look Her dark hair, which was

plentiful and dra over her ears into a heavy knot at the nape of

her neck, was dressed within a fine gold net Her are and snohite; froold

flashed at hied

her midway between thirty and forty Such was the lady; the , for the other had dropped her handkerchief

upon his face before she left hiuishable voice, when Prosper had saluted her, "you reat service if you will, which is to carry this dead rave in the wood"