CHAPTER V.
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EANWHILE, the child went out to her task. She was always willing to labour in the open air. It was only against four walls that she rebelled.
She had taken a kreel, and a fork, and went down to the black and purple masses of algæ that a rough sea of the night before had cast on the shore. Her feet were bare; her grey linen garment clung close to her graceful and strong limbs; her hair was cut so that it only touched her throat, and was as brilliant in the sunshine as that bronze of emperors which had gold ungrudged in its formation; her noble eyes grave, lustrous, wide opened, gazed over the sunlight, beyond the bay, to the open sea.
