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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

which she thinks most about, Dick or her wedding raiment!'

'Well, 'tis their nater,' said grandfather William. 'Remember the words of the prophet Jeremiah: "Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire?"'

Now among dark perpendicular firs, like the shafted columns of a cathedral; now under broad beeches in bright young leaves, they threaded their way: then through a hazel copse, matted with primroses and wild hyacinths, into the high road, which dipped at that point directly into the village of Yalbury; and in the space of a quarter of an hour, Fancy found herself to be Mrs. Richard Dewy, though, much to her surprise, feeling no other than Fancy Day still.

On the circuitous return walk through the lanes and fields, amid much chattering and laughter, especially when they came to

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