The Witch of Blackbird Pond

What is Kit's first impression of America upon stepping ashore at Saybrook? What gives her this impression?

THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND CHAPTERS 1-3

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Kit's was excited when she set shore in Saybrook, but it didn't take long for her to become embarrassed...... feeling as if everyone was looking at her rudely.

With a bound she was over the side and had set foot on America. She stood taking deep breaths of the salt, fish-tainted air, and looked about for someone to share her excitement. She was quite forgotten. A throng of men and boys on the wharf had noisily closed in on the three Eatens, and she could hear a busy catching up of the past months' news. The other passengers had hurried along the wharf to the dirt road beyond. Only three shabbily-dressed women lingered near her, and because she could not contain her eagerness, Kit smiled and would have spoken, but she was abruptly repulsed by their sharply curious eyes. One hand moved guiltily to her tangled brown curls. She must look a sight! No gloves, no cover for her hair, and her face rough and red from weeks of salt wind. But how ill-mannered of them to stare so! She pulled up the hood of her scarlet cloak and turned away. Embarrassment was a new sensation for Kit. No one on the island had ever presumed to stare like that at Sir Francis Tyler's granddaughter.

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond