6/9 But when I did not find her, I could not feel sure of it. Every spot in the Pineta is so like all other spots. One pine-tree is just like another; and the grassy openings, and the little thickets of underwood, are all the same over and over again. I felt that I could not be sure that the place was the same." "Was there no fallen tree, no track of road, no specialty of weed or flower, that the spot might be identified by ?" "None I think--none that I am aware of or can remember. There was a little rising of the ground,--a sort of bank, and the grass was sprinkled all over with wild flowers. |