This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...saw how the crocuses and snowflakes stretched like a cloud, as far as the eye could reach, in the chestnut-woods. But none of these sights sufficed her; for an ache, a void, was in her soul--a desire to share--a sense of the need of human contact--which never-till now had she consciously dreamed of. She went softly to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...saw how the crocuses and snowflakes stretched like a cloud, as far as the eye could reach, in the chestnut-woods. But none of these sights sufficed her; for an ache, a void, was in her soul--a desire to share--a sense of the need of human contact--which never-till now had she consciously dreamed of. She went softly to the gap in the wall whence she could see the cottage of the young woman she had been with yesterday. The door was closed, the white goat tethered. It was evident that its inhabitants were away. And Linda felt glad; she had wished to see them, and yet she was glad that they were away. From all these things it might be supposed that Linda had fallen in love. This was not at all the case. What had happened to her was different. It must in any case have happened sooner or later in one form or another, and through the first purely intellectual and nervous medium she encountered. Von Herder, in ten minutes' talk, had exactly touched and played upon a string in Linda's nature which had not been brought into use before, but which was only waiting to give forth its sounds. His mere presence had disarmed her previous self-assertion; and, by a few idle words and looks, he had opened the flood-gates of the nature she inherited from her mother--a nature sensitive, selfcondemnatory, vivid, and emotional. From that day onward Linda ceased to be self-sufficient. Her outward appearance altered, too; and a wistful look crept at times into her eyes. She listened more to other people, studied her relation towards them more; became aware of those thousands of little points of contact which form our human lives. But at the same time she grew doubly impatient of what was merely material. She was often eager and intolerant; but at the back of her mind there was a con...
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