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eyes that were as young as Betsy’s own.
Lady Alicia
I do not know your uncle personally, for I dislike being visited, but I correspond with him on occasions.
The sun shone on her rough red curls, and her cotton frock was the colour of the new green beech leaves.
Simile
A ripple of something that might have been amusement, or perhaps memory, passed over Lady Alicia’s face
Haha
a butterfly kiss,’
echoes woke up in the house and answered it, ringing and ringing away and away like birdsong in the wood.
Simile
Francis,’
Lion Tor,’
Haha
This is not so much a case of stealing as of thwarted paternity.’
Haha
Haha
Haha
He was not weeping now, not in front of her, but he had wept.
Three times now this strange adult thing had touched her.
She was well aware that her feeling for Gertrude was not this thing, but something far less admirable,
she fought a battle inside herself with the thing that it was, a so...
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‘Child, you have made a friend,’ said Lady Alicia, ‘and a more valuable one than you realise.
Haha nice
spillikins.’
Jackstraws, or (u.S.) pick-up sticks
People who are quite sure what one ought to do are always obeyed, even if what they think one ought to do isn’t what one ought to do,
Haha
Simile
Simile
anemones,
sorrel
vio...
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a wall of rock had forced itself through the hillside.
she found flowers lying on the path,
here was another country.
if she were to go up above them the marvel would be repeated.
Haha
world upon world,
Simile
she wondered if there was any place anywhere more lovely and strange than this,
Simile put to use
they were not menacing but protective,
the banks of the stream were thick with water forget-me-nots and green ferns.
little rowan trees
Simile, morphing
Evidently the lion was inhabited. He was alive.
Haha
men in tall hats with falcons on their wrists riding through a forest, and up above them was a town with towers and pinnacles perched on a mountain top.
See p. 68 for the same (?) scene in needlework.
The outlines of the picture had been incised in the rock
She did not yet know the names of the birds and beasts, but the little pictures made her love them.
plaited osiers
Haha
Nan liked this man on sight, just as she liked Ezra and Moses Glory Glory Alleluja.
a piece of gardener’s bast
Daft Davie
‘I must have had to go there,’ said Nan, ‘or the bees wouldn’t have said so.’
