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 She fell into the mill race.

Intrepid girl, not to be daunted by circumstance, Clever scrambled up and out of her sudden baptism, climbed the slope, rejoined Jack and Lively, once more in the wide world.

Level-headed girl, not prone to nostalgia, she let go the past:

— her innocence,

— her headless father,

— her heartless mother.

 

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Clever’s Road 52: GB0107