Word: richwick
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...Albert Richwick, bachelor and gentleman farmer, was strolling near his garden one day when a pack of hounds chased an exhausted fox into his hedge. Suddenly "there was no fox. But protruding from the hedge, on the ground, a pair of bare legs. They were kicking. The rest of the body, caught in the hedge and slashed by thorns, was trying to push through...It was a woman...
...woman, whom her new protector calls Sylva from the Latin word for forest (Garnett's changeling lady was named Silvia), has the pretty figure of a lithe and leggy 18-year-old with brilliant onyx eyes and, of course, red hair, but inside she is all fox. Richwick learns this the hard way. Sylva sleeps under the bed, curled up in a vulpine ball; she refuses to wear a stitch of clothes, and she smells so strong that her room must be cleaned and thoroughly aired each day. She bolts down whole chickens, crunching up bones...