"
"What puts you in such a turmoil, Anna?" Aaron asked. "What has happened
at home?"
I thought he had been duly attending to the state of his own inward
hopes and fears, instead of mine. Slightly disconcerted by his gray
eyes, the very same that disturb turbulent boys in church-time, I turned
away from them, went to the door, and leaning against the side thereof,
looking the while up at the sky, I answered,--
"I'm going home on the morrow, Aaron."
"Going home?" he repeated, as if the words had borne an uncertain
import. "Pray tell me, what has occurred?"
"It pleases my father to have me there. He gives no reason."
"What will Sophie say? She's hardly seen you since you came, you've been
so usefully employed. I hope you have not hurt yourself. I wish you were
going back with brighter color in your cheeks."
"There is something in Nature besides mere coloring," I said, and looked
for the answer.
It was better than I thought to get.
"What?" he asked.
"Two things, Aaron,--conception and form."
Aaron mused awhile.
"What gave you the idea?" he asked, his musing over.
"Sermons in granite," I answered; and I looked at the sunshine, the
afternoon radiance that fell soothingly into the winter-wearied grass
lying in the graveyard, waiting like souls for the warmth of love to
enlife them.
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