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Excerpt from Adnam's Orchard
English yeoman could hardly have been imagined. In her long black dress, the straight lines of which accentuated the slender grace of her figure as she moved, with the spotless lawn of her kerchief and cufls, and the loose leather girdle from which depended a jingling bunch of keys, she looked like. One of those noble ladies of old, a chanoinesse, vowed to religion, but living in the World and taking an active part in the duties of life all the same. And everything about her bore out this suggestion, more especially her ascetic face, which was the face of a mystic, gentle and tender, firm but not severe, with the characteristic eyes, open at their widest when what she saw was beyond the range of their vision. She glanced at her husband as she entered the hall and her face brightened, but she did not smile. He went to'the table at once to place her chair, an attention he never forgot to pay his own lady, though he had been known to omit _it in the base of a duchess. Then he went to his place opposite. Seraph was on his left. There were four covers laid. Before they sat down old Emery tapped the table and looked at Seraph. Ask a blessing, he said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
