O Pioneers!

There are women who spread ruin around them through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too full of life and love. They can't help it. People come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.

In eleven long years John Bergson had made but little impression upon the wild land he had come to tame.

"He IS a disgraceful object,

you did not see them until you came directly upon them.

The light fell upon the two sad young faces that were turned mutely toward it: upon the eyes of the girl, who seemed to be looking with such anguished perplexity into the future; upon the sombre eyes of the boy, who seemed already to be looking into the past.

queerly shaped old man, with a thick, powerful body set on short bow-legs.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before

The hedgerows and trees are scarcely perceptible against the bare earth, whose slaty hue they have taken on. The

Who wouldn't, with all those Spanish girls dropping flowers down from their windows! I'd sing to them every night,