A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter

It was nearer brown than yellow,and she remembered having seen some like it in the boxes that afternoon.It was not the one needed to complete the collection,but Elnora might want it,so Mrs.

― Gene Stratton-Porter, quote from A Girl of the Limberlost He tried to realize what a great city audience would say to that music, from such a player, with a like background, he could not imagine.” The mother out on the trail had heard it all once before from the girl, many times from her father. It seemed as if the swamp hushed all its other voices and spoke only through her dancing bow. So to Ammon before her and the mother watching on the trail, Elnora played the Song of the Limberlost. Comstock had followed them, and was standing on the trail, where she could not have helped hearing everything Elnora had said. he arose and stepped back several yards, leaning against a large tree, looking and listening with all his soul.Īs he changed position he saw that Mrs. Ammon was to near to get the best effect. From the instant she drew the bow, her lips parted and her eyes fastened on something far away in the swamp, and never did she give more of that immpression of feeling for her notes and repeating something audible only to her. Her head shone like a small dark sun, her face never had seemed so rose-flushed and fair.

She seemed a part of the setting all around her. She wore a school dress of green gingham, with the sleeves rolled to the elbows. “Elnora lifted the violin and began to play.

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter