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The March Family Trilogy

PART II
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They have them everywhere." "Do they?
Well, anyway, there's a noble view up there." There was no view on the way up.

The Germans' notion of a woodland is everywhere that of a dense forest such as their barbarous tribes primevally herded in.

It means the close-set stems of trees, with their tops interwoven in a roof of boughs and leaves so densely that you may walk dry through it almost as long as a German shower lasts.

When the sun shines there is a pleasant greenish light in the aisles, shot here and there with the gold that trickles through.

There is nothing of the accident of an American wood in these forests, which have been watched and weeded by man ever since they burst the soil.


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