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"The path my father's foot / Had trod me out (which suddenly broke off / And passed) alone I carried on, and set / My child-heart 'gainst the thorny underwood / To reach the grassy shelter of the trees. / Ah, babe i' the wood, without a brother babe! / My own self pity, like the red-breast bird, / Flies back to cover all that past with leaves. " / _Aurora Leigh._
As the door of the inhospitable mansion closed behind Queenie she was / conscious of a strange feeling of revulsion and weakness, a blank, / hopeless depression of mind and body. At the first touch of the keen / wintry air she shivered and staggered slightly.