Gone to Earth (Classic Reprint) by Mary Webb details from sapnaonline

Excerpt from Gone to Earth
Only the crudeness of youth was here as yet, and not its triumph - only the sharp calyx-point, the prick ing tip of the bud, like spears, and not the paten of the leaf, the chalice of the ?ower.
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