[The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sowers CHAPTER XXII 5/19
I try in several languages.
I have no small-talk." "You see," she said gravely, "you are a large man." "Does that make any difference ?" he asked simply. She turned and looked at him as he towered by her side--looked at him with a queer smile. "Yes," she answered, "I think so." For some moments they remained thus without speaking--in a peaceful silence.
Although the room was very large, it was peaceful.
What is it, by the way, that brings peace to the atmosphere of a room, of a whole house sometimes? It can only be something in the individuality of some person in it.
We talk glibly of the comfort of being settled--the peacefulness, the restfulness of it.
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