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XII. IN HER SELFLESS MOOD
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The raw wind of an early May evening was puffing1 in and out the curtains of the room where Naomi Holland lay dying. The air was moist and chill, but the sick woman would not have the window closed.
"I can't get my breath if you shut everything up so tight," she said. "Whatever comes, I ain't going to be smothered2 to death, Car'line Holland."
Outside of the window grew a cherry tree, powdered with moist buds with the promise of blossoms she would not live to see. Between its boughs4 she saw a crystal cup of sky over hills that were growing dim and purple. The outside air was full of sweet, wholesome5 springtime sounds that drifted in fitfully. There were voices and whistles in the barnyard, and now and then faint laughter. A bird alighted for a moment on a cherry bough3, and twittered restlessly. Naomi knew that white mists were hovering6 in the silent hollows, that the maple7 at the gate wore a misty8 blossom red, and that violet stars were shining bluely on the brooklands.
The room was a small, plain one. The floor was bare, save for a couple of braided rugs, the plaster discolored, the walls dingy9 and glaring. There had never been much beauty in Naomi Holland's environment, and, now that she was dying, there was even less.
At the open window a boy of about ten years was leaning out over the sill and whistling. He was tall for his age, and beautiful—the hair a rich auburn with a glistening10 curl in it, skin very white and warm-tinted, eyes small and of a greenish blue, with
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sullenly
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不高兴地,绷着脸,忧郁地 | |
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