Chapter I. Outside Dorlcote Mill in The Mill on the
Chapter I. Outside Dorlcote Mill. A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace. On this mighty tide the black shipsladen with the freshscented firplanks, with rounded sacks of oilbearing seed, or with the dark