Servants of the Map (2002)
“If you knew what I feel when I see him … But why shouldn’t you know? If I can imagine you, not face or your gestures perhaps but your mind and your heart, why not imagine you capable of feeling all I feel? I picture us on the bank of the river here, near the field-stone bench, exchanging confidences. I think how, when at last I find you, I will hand you these lines and you will know me.
The aunts do not even look up as he passes. The hayfields surrounding us, north and west, belong to James; th...e lush pastures to the south; the oats and rye and cattle and sheep, the fine stand of timber between our wedge of river-front land and the ramble of the Bartrams’ botanic gardens—his, all his. He is nearing thirty, not yet married though rumored to be looking for a wife. Wealthy, now that he’s come into his grandfather’s estate. And favored in all the other ways as well. About him there is a kind of sheen, the golden skin of good fortune.
In the room below me the aunts ignore him as they work on their Manual of Geography, a book for school-girls, they have such high hopes.MoreLess
The aunts do not even look up as he passes. The hayfields surrounding us, north and west, belong to James; th...e lush pastures to the south; the oats and rye and cattle and sheep, the fine stand of timber between our wedge of river-front land and the ramble of the Bartrams’ botanic gardens—his, all his. He is nearing thirty, not yet married though rumored to be looking for a wife. Wealthy, now that he’s come into his grandfather’s estate. And favored in all the other ways as well. About him there is a kind of sheen, the golden skin of good fortune.
In the room below me the aunts ignore him as they work on their Manual of Geography, a book for school-girls, they have such high hopes.MoreLess
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