Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

“She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn,…”

“Quiet descended on her, calm, content, as her needle, drawing the silk smoothly…”

“He soon perceived, however, that the battles which Sir Miles and therest had wa…”

“Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, …”