A DAUGHTER OF EVE `` I hate the thought of growing up , '' said the Story Girl reflectively , `` because I can never go barefooted then , and nobody will ever see what beautiful feet I have . '' She was sitting , the July sunlight , on the ledge of the open hayloft window in Uncle Roger 's big barn ; and the bare feet below her print skirt WERE beautiful . They were slender and shapely and satin smooth with arched insteps , the daintiest of toes , and nails like pink shells . We were all the hayloft . The Story Girl had been telling us a tale `` Of old , unhappy , far-off things , And battles long ago . '' Felicity and Cecily were curled up in a corner , and we boys sprawled idly on the fragrant , sun-warm heaps . We had `` stowed '' the hay in the loft that morning for Uncle Roger , so we felt that we had earned the right to loll on our sweet-smelling couch . Haylofts are delicious places , with just enough of shadow and soft , uncertain noises to give an agreeable tang of mystery . The swallows flew in and out of their nest above our heads , and whenever a sunbeam fell through a chink the air swarmed with golden dust . Outside of the loft was a vast , sunshiny gulf of blue sky and mellow air , wherein floated argosies of fluffy cloud , and airy tops of maple and spruce . Pat was with us , of course , prowling about stealthily , or making frantic , bootless leaps at the swallows . A cat in a hayloft is a beautiful example of the eternal fitness of things . We had not heard of this fitness then , but we all felt that Paddy was in his own place in a hayloft . `` I think it is very vain to talk about anything you have yourself being beautiful , '' said Felicity . `` I am not a bit vain , '' said the Story Girl , with entire truthfulness . `` It is not vanity to know your own good points . It would just be stupidity if you did n't . It 's only vanity when you get puffed up about them . I am not a bit pretty . My only good points are my hair and eyes and feet .
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