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AN EARLY MORNING WALK
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She was standing upright in the cart, and her lissom body was swaying easily to and fro with its motion; her yellow hair streamed out bright behind from under her crimson cap, her blue eyes shone, her face was all aglow. Very likely she was only hurrying in order to be in time for school; but, as she whirled by, Millicent had a sudden vision of some Viking’s daughter standing at a helm, and felt, as she opened the gate, and re-entered the house, that upon her impressions of country freshness and mountain glory there had suddenly blown in also a sense of the adventurous wide sea.
