Alice Wilde: The Raftsman's Daughter — page 64: what you’re looking at

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60 ALICE WILDE. VeLmer bie VAT. AWAY FROM HOME. A QUAINT party were to be seen passing through some of the streets of Center City one April day of the following spring. A tall and vigorous man, with a keen, intelligent face, clad in a calico shirt, a blue-woolen hunter’s frock and buckskin breeches, strode on as if anxious to reach his destination; or, rather, as if used to making good time over endless prairies and through unsurvyeyed forests. By his side walked a young girl whose dress, though of the best materials, was antique as our grandmothers’; a broad-brimmed hat shaded a face the Joveliest ever beheld in that city; her little slippers with their silver buckles peeped out from beneath her short frock. Those who were fortunate enough to see her as she passed did not know which to admire most—the exquisite, unstudied grace of her manners, which was as peculiar as her beauty, or the seraphic innocence of her expression. She kept pace with her companion, looking gravely forward with those great blue eyes, only occasionally giving the crowd a fawn-like, startled look, when it pressed too near. <A few paces behind trudged an ancient colored couple, the man short, and white-eyed, rolling smiles as he passed, evidently supposing all the atten- tion of the lookers-on to be concentrated on his flaming vest, his flowered coat, and bran-new boots; the woman a perfect black Juno, really superb in her air and physique, wearing her neatly-folded yellow turban as if it were a golden crown. She seldom took her eyes off the young mistress whom she fol- lowed, except occasionally to sinister at some impudent fellow who dared too hard. The group wended their way onward until they read the names of “Raymond & Moore,” in gilt letters over a new foursstory brick store of this thriving new town, and here they disappeared from the view of outsiders. “Captain Wilde! how do you do? you're down early this spring. Well, the mill’s waiting for you to feed it. Come down on a raft?” Ccomicbooks.com