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There are workmen up at the Hall: they are coming back from abroad, The dark old place will be gilt by the touch of a millionnaire: I have heard, I know not whence, of the singular beauty of Maud, I play'd with the girl when a child; she promised then to be fair.

Maud with her venturous climbings and tumbles and childish escapes, Maud the delight of the village, the ringing joy of the Hall, Maud with her sweet purse-mouth when my father dangled the grapes, Maud the beloved of my mother, the moon-faced darling of all,—