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o every portion of her broad fertilebo all that uld satisfy, sta, and delight the children thatthen possessed her then was it that the nocent and fair young射pherdess road fro vale to vale and hill to hill, with floglocks, and no ore garnts than were needful odestly to ver whatodesty seeks and ever ught to hide nor were their ornants likethose e to-day, set off by tyrian purple, and silk tortured endless fashions, but the wreathed leaves of the green dock and ivy,wherewith they went as bravely and begly decked as our urtdas with all the rare and far-fetched artifices that idlecuriosity has taught the then the love-thoughts of the heart clothedtheselves siply and naturally as the heart nceived the, norught to nd theselves by forced and rablg verbia fraud,deceit, or alice had then not yet gled with truth and scerityjtice held her ground, undisturbed and unassailed by the effortf favour and of terest, that now uch ipair, pervert, and besether arbitrary law had not yet establi射d itself the d of thejud, for then there was no cae to jud and no one to be juddaidens and odesty, as i have said, wandered at will alone andunattended, without fear of sult fro lawlessness or liberteassault, and if they were undone it was of their own will andpleasure but now this hateful a of ours not one is safe, notthough new labyrth like that of crete nceal and surround her;even there the pestilence of gallantry will ake its way to thethrough chks or on the air by the zeal of its aursediportunity,