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The Place Beyond the Winds (Hardcover)
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The Place Beyond the Winds (Hardcover)
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Priscilla Glenn stood on the little slope leading down from the
farmhouse to the spring at the bottom of the garden, and lifted her
head as a young deer does when it senses something new or
dangerous. Suddenly, and entirely subconsciously, she felt her
kinship with life, her relation to the lovely May day which was
more like June than May-and a rare thing for Kenmore-whose seasons
lapsed into each other as calmly and sluggishly as did all the
other happenings in that spot known to the Canadian Indians as The
Place Beyond the Wind-the In-Place. Across Priscilla's straight,
young shoulders lay a yoke from both ends of which dangled empty
tin pails, destined, sooner or later, to be filled with that
peculiarly fine water of which Nathaniel Glenn was so proud.
Nathaniel Glenn never loved things in a human, tender fashion, but
he was proud of many things-proud that he, and his before him, had
braved the hardships of farming among the red, rocky hills of
Kenmore instead of wrenching a livelihood from the water. This
capacity for tilling the soil instead of gambling in fish had made
of Glenn, and a few other men, the real aristocracy of the place.
Nathaniel's grandfather, with his wife and fifteen children, had
been the first white settlers of Kenmore. So eager had the Indians
been to have this first Glenn among them that it is said they
offered him any amount of land he chose to select, and Glenn had
taken only so much as would insure him a decent farm and prospects.
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