A PAIR OF BLUE
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EYES.
stretching her neck farther over the farze, Elfricle
He
beheld the individual signified.
was walking
leisurely along the little green
path at the bottom, beside the stream, a satchel
slung upon
his
left
walking-stick in his hand,
hip,
a stout
and a brown-
holland sun-hat upon his head. The satchel
was worn and
old,
and the outer polished
surface of the leather
ing
was cracked and
peel-
oiF.
Knight having arrived over the
hills
to
Stranton upon the top of a crazy omnibus, preferred to walk the remaining two miles
up the
valley,
leaving his luggage to be
brought on.
Behind him a boy wandered skelter,
helter-
and by that natural law of physics
by which
lesser
bodies gravitate towards
the greater, this boy drew near Knight,
and trotted
like a little
heels, whistling as
fixed fell.
dog
close
at his
he went, with his eyes
upon Knight's boots
as they rose
and
