| | 1 | Author: | Wilkins, Mary E. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Prism  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | There had been much rain that season, and the vegetation was
almost tropical. The wayside growths were jungles to birds and
insects, and very near them to humans. All through the long
afternoon of the hot August day, Diantha Fielding lay flat on her
back under the lee of the stone wall which bordered her
stepfather's, Zenas May's, south mowing-lot. It was pretty warm
there, although she lay in a little strip of shade of the tangle
of blackberry-vines, poison-ivy, and the gray pile of stones; but
the girl loved the heat. She experienced the gentle languor
which is its best effect, instead of the fierce unrest and
irritation which is its worst. She left that to rattlesnakes and
nervous women. As for her, in
times of extreme heat, she
hung over life with tremulous flutters, like a butterfly over a
rose, moving only enough to preserve her poise in the scheme of
things, and realizing to the full the sweetness of all about her. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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