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Girls from surrounding farms, and some- times their mothers, too, had looked at him with affection, but he had so desperately yearned for c ' or 'in the days when I lived with the gemsbok . “I wouldn’t hold my breath,” Dougless muttered. Then she remembered the evening of the first day she’d met him and how she’d been in that toolshed crying.

'Like the ones who came across the sea, before Old Grand- mother's time. There seemed to be explanations for everything. ” He dropped her hand. If the books had pictures, they were woodcuts or hand-colored illuminations.