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It seems such a little while since I first saw the prairie, and I shrank from it then, she said.
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It looked so bare and grim and utterly forbidding.
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And now?
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Now its harshness has vanished and it has grown beautiful. When it lies under the moonlight it is steeped in glamour and mystery. Even the tiny grasses make elfin music when everything is still. I came out at sunrise this morning when a faint breeze got up and listened to them.
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Ah! exclaimed Thorne softly,
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Now that I have learned to know it, a fondness for the wilderness has crept into my blood; but, after all, your views are narrow; you don't go quite far enough. I think one could sometimes hear the music I spoke of in the noisy cities. Only, as you say, it must be in one's heart already.
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Ours are in unison.
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No, protested Alison, smilingly,
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I think we should not benefit if that were possible. The most we can look for is a complex harmony. In the strain humanity raises there must be many different notes and many different parts.
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But the same insistent throb in all that is worth listening to.
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Ah! murmured the girl;
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Now I know I heard it in crowded places; in the pounding of the forges, and the rumble of the mills. I've heard it a little plainer in the wash beneath the liner's bows and the din the Pacific express made crossing the silent prairie with the Empress mails. Still, as you suggested, I wouldn't grasp its message until one night I sat in the bluff and heard the birch twigs whispering while you rested in the wagon. Then I knew I was an idler and a trifler; one who stood aside while the others took their fill of the joys and pains of life.
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Then you were awake that night?
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Yes; I sat beneath a tree, and I don't know how often I smoked my pipe out, but my mouth was parched at sunrise, and there was a new purpose growing into shape at the bottom of my mind. You see, I realized that I must fall into line and toil like the rest if I wanted you.
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But you had seen me for only two or three days!
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I think if I had seen you for only an hour it would have had the same result. Anyway, I tried farming, and--though I was very nearly beaten--you can see what I have made of it.
human
The house is almost ready, dear, and I want you to drive in to the railroad with me to-morrow. A man from Winnipeg will be at the hotel then, and I should like you to choose what you think is needed from his lists of furnishings.
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If you will come over early, I'll be ready.
human
It is a marvelous night! he exclaimed.
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The wilderness gripped me when I came out, but I don't think I ever realized how wonderful it is as I do just now. And there are people who can see in it only an empty, wind-swept land!
human
Still, there are excuses for them. Only part of the glamour is in the prairie. The rest of it is due to the supreme good fortune that has fallen to me.
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You are very sure of that?
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Yes, declared Thorne, with resolute decisiveness,
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