Private Life
“He felt they should have separate berths. However, he gave her a chaste kiss every morning upon rising and every evening just before he retired.
Their progress from Missouri was, at first, a lesson in the effects of decreasing rainfall--the green fields paled from moist, rippling shoots of wheat, to grass, to straw, to brown earth, then abruptly thrust up in cliffs of granite against a hard blue sky like none she had ever seen before. What rain there was Andrew pointed out to her--a vaporou...s curtain in the deep distance that often didn't reach all the way from the cloud to the earth.
The endless deserts of Nevada were succeeded by their opposite, the pine-clad Sierras by way of the Donner Pass, which were just as daunting. Andrew, in his sonorous way, spent the journey detailing the geology of every region, and then the various stages by which the Donner Party came to grief and later was rescued. Margaret had never heard of the Donner Party, but by the time they got to Sacramento, she knew more about them ("Almost all of the women survived.MoreLess
Their progress from Missouri was, at first, a lesson in the effects of decreasing rainfall--the green fields paled from moist, rippling shoots of wheat, to grass, to straw, to brown earth, then abruptly thrust up in cliffs of granite against a hard blue sky like none she had ever seen before. What rain there was Andrew pointed out to her--a vaporou...s curtain in the deep distance that often didn't reach all the way from the cloud to the earth.
The endless deserts of Nevada were succeeded by their opposite, the pine-clad Sierras by way of the Donner Pass, which were just as daunting. Andrew, in his sonorous way, spent the journey detailing the geology of every region, and then the various stages by which the Donner Party came to grief and later was rescued. Margaret had never heard of the Donner Party, but by the time they got to Sacramento, she knew more about them ("Almost all of the women survived.MoreLess
Read book Private Life for free
Write Review:
Guest
Read Also
8 / 10
User Reviews: