. Seen from the saddle . My dear Diana, said D., when thesepeople lived and died they were under theJewish dispensation. The Puritan womanwas an Oriental in her attitude towardsmen. We have done away with the Jew-ish Sabbath, and we shall do away— Ithink, indeed, we have already done away—with the Jewish view of woman ; let ushope we have come into the Christian eraat last. His sweet reasonableness had its effect,and all three strolled about the sunny graves with a feeling of good-fellowship as if theyhad at last got on common ground. I wonder why it does not frighten one,*said Ph
. Seen from the saddle . My dear Diana, said D., when thesepeople lived and died they were under theJewish dispensation. The Puritan womanwas an Oriental in her attitude towardsmen. We have done away with the Jew-ish Sabbath, and we shall do away— Ithink, indeed, we have already done away—with the Jewish view of woman ; let ushope we have come into the Christian eraat last. His sweet reasonableness had its effect,and all three strolled about the sunny graves with a feeling of good-fellowship as if theyhad at last got on common ground. I wonder why it does not frighten one,*said Philistina, at last: the inevitablenessof their fate being ones own, and that someday this awful thing must happen to youand to me. * It does not frighten you, said D., be-cause it is going to happen to me and toDiana and to every other living creature,but not to you. Everybody makes himselfthe exception, and this, and this alone, iswhy you are not afraid. But come, we mustaway. At 4 they cantered out of XIII )HE Farmington River rippledand burned and gleamed inthe sun — burned a trifle toofiercely to suit the horseback^^ riders as they rode along itsbanks to New Boston. And presently thesun set, and all the nearer sky looked like asort of blushing foam that extended intowaves of light and shade. Near the edgesof the farther clouds were monoliths andcolumns of coral that stood out straightand fine, and back of all was a far-reachingmystery of blue. But it was a far cry to their destination,and it seemed, at least to Philistina andDiana, as if New Boston was as distant asthe New Jerusalem. By seven oclock—this was August 5th—they began to ask peo-ple how far it was, and to have positive likesand dislikes for them as their replies a person said New Boston was still faroff, he was at once set down as an objec- 143 tionable individual. If the distance wasshortened, the reply gave the answerer agood place in the riders affections. Thefirst woman, a ki
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