Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote by Megan Riley McGilchrist

Author:Megan Riley McGilchrist [McGilchrist, Megan Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781647790196
Publisher: University of Nevada Press

July 18, 1876

We are as retired as if there were no mine within a hundred miles—all we can see of the outside world is the bit of winding road which disappears round a curve of the hill beneath an arching young live oak tree and the roofs & gables of two or three miners’ cottages half hidden by trees. We are as much alone as if we were in a light-house—and it makes me think of that when we look out in front down the cliff where the valley lies below as level as the sea—and the mountains rising all around, some in shadow some in light. In the early morning the valley is like a great lake, filled with fog which rises in waves—rolling up—sometimes blown off in light drifts—I can give you no idea of the view.14

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