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Lucy Ferrier grew up within the log-house, and assisted
her adopted father in all his undertakings. The keen air of

the mountains and the balsamic odour of the pine trees took
the place of nurse and mother to the young girl. As year
succeeded to year she grew taller and stronger, her cheek
more rudy, and her step more elastic. Many a wayfarer upon
the high road which ran by Ferrier's farm felt long-forgotten

thoughts revive in their mind as they watched her lithe
girlish figure tripping through the wheatfields, or met her
mounted upon her father's mustang, and managing it with

all the ease and grace of a true child of the West. So the bud
blossomed into a flower, and the year which saw her father
the richest of the farmers left her as fair a specimen of
American girlhood as could be found in the whole Pacific
slope.

露西·费里尔在这个木屋中慢慢长大，她帮助养父处理一切事物。
山区清新的空气和松林中飘溢的脂香，都像慈母般抚育着这个年轻的

少女。随着岁月一年又一年地逝去，露西也一年年长大成人了，她的
面颊愈见娇艳，步态也日益轻盈。不知有多少路人在经过费里尔家农

场旁的大道时，瞧见露西那少女的倩影轻盈地穿过麦田，或者碰见她
骑着父亲的马，以地道的西部儿女的轻松和优雅驾驭它，见到这样的

情景，人们都不禁浮想起那些早已逝去的青春记忆。当年的葩蕾今天

已经开放成一朵鲜花，随着时间的流逝，她的父亲变成了农民中最富
有的人，同时，她也成长为太平洋沿岸整个山区里难得一见的一个标
致美洲少女。

It was not the father, however, who first discovered that
the child had developed into the woman. It seldom is in such
cases. That mysterious change is too subtle and too gradual

to be measured by dates. Least of all does the maiden
herself know it until the tone of a voice or the touch of a
hand sets her heart thrilling within her, and she learns, with

a mixture of pride and of fear, that a new and a larger
nature has awoken within her. There are few who cannot