Her abundant black hair was twisted into a sagging knot at her neck , and from beneath the old fur cap looked out a pair of large and brilliant black eyes , heavily lashed , and full of a smouldering fire . Her skin was tanned and coarsened , but the warm crimson blood glowed in her cheeks with a dusky richness , and her face was a perfect oval , with features chiselled in almost classic regularity of outline . Telford had a curious experience at that moment . He seemed to see , looking out from behind this external mask of degraded beauty , the semblance of what this woman might have been under more favouring circumstance of birth and environment , wherein her rich , passionate nature , potent for either good or evil , might have been trained and swayed aright until it had developed grandly out into the glorious womanhood the Creator must have planned for her . He knew , as if by revelation , that this woman had nothing in common with the narrow , self-righteous souls of Rykman 's Corner . Warped and perverted though her nature might be , she was yet far nobler than those who sat in judgement upon her . Min made some scanty purchases and left the store quickly , brushing unheedingly past the minister as she did so . He saw her step on a rough wood-sleigh and drive down the river road . The platform loungers had been silent during her call , but now the talk bubbled forth anew . Telford was sick at heart as he drove swiftly away . He felt for Min Palmer a pity he could not understand or analyze . The attempt to measure the gulf between what she was and what she might have been hurt him like the stab of a knife . He made several calls at various houses along the river during the forenoon . After dinner he suddenly turned his horse towards the Palmer place . Isaac Galletly , comfortably curled up in a neighbour 's chimney corner , saw him drive past . `` Ef the minister ai n't goin ' to Palmers ' after all ! '' he chuckled . `` He 's a set one when he does take a notion . Well , I warned him what to expect . If Min claws his eyes out , he 'll only have himself to blame . ''
Telford was not without his own misgivings as he drove XXXXX the Palmer yard .
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