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One Day At Arle, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Title: One Day At Arle
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Release Date: November 4, 2007 [EBook #23330]
Language: English
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ONE DAY AT ARLE
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Copyright, 1877
One day at Arle--a tiny scattered fishing hamlet on the northwestern English coast--there stood at the door of one of the cottages near the shore a woman leaning against the lintel-post and looking out: a woman who would have been apt to attract a stranger's eye, too--a woman young and handsome. This was what a first glance would have taken in; a second would have been apt to teach more and leave a less pleasant impression. She was young enough to have been girlish, but she was not girlish in the least. Her tall, lithe, well-knit figure was braced against the door-post with a tense sort of strength; her handsome face was just at this time as dark and hard in expression as if she had been a woman with years of bitter life behind her; her handsome brows were knit, her lips were set; from head to foot she looked unyielding and stern of purpose.
And neither form nor face belied her. The earliest remembrances of the coast people concerning Meg Lonas had not been over-ple