Sublime

ursine.

Instead of calling on some scholar, I paid many a visit to particular trees, of kinds which are rare in this neighborhood, standing far away in the middle of some pasture, or in the depths of a wood or swamp, or on a hilltop; such as the black birch, of which we have some handsome specimens two feet in diameter;

Beneath these giants, way down in the understory, her own body seems freakishly small, like one of those acorn-people she made in childhood.