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The sun shone on the lovers' journey. It was almost the happiest day in the lives of either; certainly the happiest day these two had ever spent together. To Lucille, after perpetual imprisonment in the Shadrack-road, those green fields and autumnal woods seemed unutterably beautiful-the winding river-the changing shadows on the hill-side-the villages nestling in verdant hollows.
‘How can any one live in London! ' she exclaimed, with natural wonder, the only London she knew being so dreary and dingy a scene.