Elia Wilkinson Peattie
A Mountain Woman
Paperback
(Independently published June 27, 2020)
IF Leroy Brainard had not had such a respect forliterature, he would have written a book.As it was, he played at being an architect—andsucceeded in being a charming fellow. My sister Jessicanever lost an opportunity of laughing at his endeavors asan architect.“You can build an enchanting villa, but what would youdo with a cathedral?”“I shall never have a chance at a cathedral,” he wouldreply. “And, besides, it always seems to me so materialand so impertinent to build a little structure of stone andwood in which to worship God!”You see what he was like? He was frivolous, yet onecould never tell when he would become eloquentlyearnest.Brainard went off suddenly Westward one day. Isuspected that Jessica was at the bottom of it, but I askedno 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 ofyour puny breed of modern femininity, but a remnant leftover from the heroic ages,—a primitive woman, grand andvast of spirit, capable of true and steadfast wifehood. Nosophistry about her;
- ISBN
- / 9798657149821
- Pages
- 164
- Weight
- 6.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 4.25 x 0.42 in.
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