Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 2 by William Dean Howells
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"I don't know. He's a lump of honest selfishness. He isn't bad. You know
where to have him. He's simple, too." "You mean, like Mr. March?" "I didn't mean that; but why not? They're not of the same generation, but Stoller isn't modern." "I'm very curious to see him," said the girl. "Do you want me to introduce him?" "You can introduce him to papa." They stopped and looked across the curve of the mounting path, down on March, who had sunk on a way-side seat, and was mopping his forehead. He saw them, and called up: "Don't wait for me. I'll join you, gradually." "I don't want to lose you," Burnamy called back, but he kept on with Miss Triscoe. "I want to get the Hirschensprung in," he explained. "It's the cliff where a hunted deer leaped down several hundred feet to get away from an emperor who was after him." "Oh, yes. They have them everywhere." "Do they? Well, anyway, there's a noble view up there." There was no view on the way up. The Germans' notion of a woodland is everywhere that of a dense forest such as their barbarous tribes primevally herded in. It means the close-set stems of trees, with their |
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