The Mystery of Witch Face Mountain And Other Stories
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" Ain't this ez good ? " she said to herself, as the vast scene suddenly fluctuated beneath a flare of wind amidst the sunshine, and light, detached white flakes of cloud went winging athwart the blue sky; their shadows followed them fast across the sunlit valley, only their dark and lifeless semblances, like the verbal forms of some white illumined thought that can find no fit expression in words. The breath of the pines came to her, the sound of the water, the sudden fanfare of the unseen win...d in the sky heralding the clouds. " Ain't this ez good?" she said again, with that first deadly, subtle distrust of the things of home, that insid- 122 The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain. ious discontent so fatal to peace. He evidently did not deem it as good, and the obvious fact rankled in her. The mountain men, and their lack of enterprise, and their drawling speech which he had mimicked, they too shared his disparagement ; and she was conscious that she herself did not now think so well of them, so conscious that she made a loyal struggle against this sentiment.
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