4/14 At first I would not have missed it for the world, but there seemed to come into the stormy scene something oppressive, and almost terrifying." "I am glad I took you away," said Lawrence, "but it seems to me that your impression was not altogether natural. I thought that, amid all that mad enthusiasm, you were over-excited, not depressed. A solemn solitude like this would, to my thinking, be much more likely to lower your spirits. I don't like solitude, myself, and therefore, I suppose it is that I thought an impressible nature, like yours, would find something sad in the loneliness of these silent woods." Annie turned, and fixed on him her large blue eyes. |