a mountain woman 山妇

A Mountain Woman 1 A Mountain Woman By Elia Wilkinson Peattie To My best Friend, and kindest Critic, My Husband. 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org A Mountain Woman 2 IF Leroy Brainard had not had such a respect for literature, he would have written a book. As it was, he played at being an architect -- and succeeded in being a charming fellow. My sister Jessica never lost an opportunity of laughing at his endeavors as an architect. "You can build an enchanting villa, but what would you do with a cathedral?" "I shall never have a chance at a cathe- dral," he would reply. "And, besides, it always seems to me so material and so im- pertinent to build a little structure of stone and wood in which to worship God!" You see what he was like? He was frivo- lous, yet one could never tell when he would become eloquently earnest. Brainard went off suddenly Westward one day. I suspected that Jessica was at the bottom of it, but I asked no questions; and I did not hear from him for months. Then I got a letter from Colorado. "I have married a mountain woman," he wrote. "None of your puny breed of modern femininity, but a remnant left over from ......