From Palm to Glacier With An Interlude Brazil Bermuda And Alaska
From Palm to Glacier With An Interlude Brazil Bermuda And Alaska
Alice Wellington Rollins
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" is your mute reflection, the nearest approach to a thought that you have had for days. Nothing hap- 62 FROM PALM TO GLACIER. pens, yet that nothing is more than you can bear. The days are so uneventful that your diary is Hke Thoreau's, recording little but that the wind is west. Na)^ you cannot even record that, for there is no wind. Not a breath of air in the sultry court, day after day. The heat is intense ; the sky is pitilessly, burningly blue. We can do nothing but wait patiently for rai...n, the blessed rain that is to bring relief from the fever! Fortunately there are few new cases here in the mountains, and none are seri- ous, but we are living in that shadow of a great dread, that atmosphere of sympathy with the suf- fering of a whole community, that drains the spirit of gladness, exhausts the body of strength, and quenches the eagerness of effort, even when the community is one of strangers. There is no visible anxiety, no startled look, or trembling question ; when news comes from the suffering city, absolute fortitude of word and bearing is the order of the day.
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