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Updated: June 27, 2025
Her sweet child's face, her dimpled, fair cheeks, her rose-bud of a mouth, and great, wistful, blue eyes, that laughed like flax-flowers in a south-wind, her tiny, round chin, and low, white forehead, were all adorned by profuse rings and coils and curls of true gold-yellow, that never would grow long, or be braided, or stay smooth, or do anything but ripple and twine and push their shining tendrils out of every bonnet or hat or hood the little creature wore, like a stray parcel of sunbeams that would shine.
The people on the banks shouted Bent-Anat's name with a thousand blessings, but many insulting words were to be heard also. The pilgrim's Nile-boat was followed by two others, full of soldiers, who accompanied the ladies "to protect them." The south-wind filled the sails, and carried the little procession swiftly down the stream.
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