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I stood stock still, scarcely daring to breathe. This was great news -- that my boy would soon have both his parents -- and there they were coming softly among the brakes that held out green inviting arms toward them.
The man was tall and slightly stooping, the woman much shorter and very slight. There was something about her that moved me strangely, though I could not see her face on account of the long veil wrapped about her head. Her figure was charming and the way in which she lifted her pretty hunting boots and put them down so as not to crush the brakes reminded me of her boy's care for every living thing.