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In due time the wagon was driven to the wharf; and Vinnie, parting from the captain and his wife with affectionate good-byes, rode out in the freshness of the morning across the great plain stretching back from the city.
The plain left behind, groves and streams and high prairies were passed; all wearing a veil of romance to the eye of the young