Chapter 13 A DAUGHTER OF EVE

New moon was noted for its apples and on that first autumn of

Emily's life there both the "old" and the "new" orchards bore a

Bumper crop. In the new were the titled and pedigreed apples; and

In the old the seedlings, unknown to catalogues, that yet had a

Flavour wildly sweet and all their own. There was no taboo on any

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