Sublime

This creek gave a sort of identity to the farms that bordered upon it.

until the instinct to

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

He best expressed his preference for his wild homestead by saying that his Bible seemed truer to him there.

there was something about this country when it was a wild old beast that has haunted me all these years.

Most of Alexandra's happy memories were as impersonal as this one; yet to her they were very personal.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before