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The Gowdy family was jogging slowly down the valley, which looked brilliant in the early morning. The impetuous river raced alongside its companion, a steady, rutty road, twisting and swirling, foaming and flashing, rippling under rowan-beeches and tossing between great boulders its white locks on high. Maggie and the river had one impulse in common: they were both eager to escape from the glen; one drawn by the world -- the other by the sea. Halfway to the highway the party encountered a boy with a telegram in his hand, which he held up as he announced:
"It's for Mistress Gowdy."