A Day of Fate
A Day of Fate
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of all the wild horses of Arabia as to curb and manage my errant
thoughts. My only chance was for some one or something to catch and
hold them for me. If that old Friend lady would preach I was sure she
would do me good. As it was, her face was an antidote to the
influences of the world in which I dwelt, but I soon began to dream
that I had found a still better remedy, for, at a fortunate angle from
my position, there sat a young Quakeress whose side face arrested my
attention and held it. By leaning a little against the wall as well as
the back of my bench, I also, well content, could look straight before
me like the others.
The fair profile was but slightly hidden by a hat that had a perceptible leaning toward the world in its character, but the brow was only made to seem a little lower, and her eyes deepened in their blue by its shadow. My sweet-briar blossoms were not more delicate in their pink shadings than was the bloom on her rounded cheek, and the white, firm chin denoted an absence of weakne
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