Unlike the gold which needed nothing, and must be worshipped in close-locked solitudewhich was hidden away from the daylight, was deaf to the song of birds, and started to no human tonesEppie was a creature of endless claims and ever-growing desires, seeking and loving sunshine, and living sounds, and living movements making trial of everything, with trust in new joy, and stirring the human kindness in all eyes that looked on her.
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