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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
All
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From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
animal
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
anythingpronounUS /ˈeniθɪŋ/
any thing at all
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
Arctura
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From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
best
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
ByprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
childhood
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
comfort
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From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
cosmical
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
cow-herd
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From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
divine
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
Donal
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
emotional
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
enter
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
exceptprepositionUS /ɪkˈsept/
apart from; not including
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
facts
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
farm
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From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
father
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
feelings
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
GARLAND-ROOM
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From this reading THE GARLAND-ROOM.
gathered
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
growing
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From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
helpnounUS /help/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
history
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
home
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
human
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
humble
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From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
intimacies
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
ItpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
known
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
labourer
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From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
less
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From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
lovely
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
made
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
memorial
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
mindnounUS /mind/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
mother
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
mountains
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
Nature
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
nevernounUS /never/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
nothingpronounUS /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
not one thing; not anything
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
pair
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From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
prayer
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
preciousadjectiveUS /ˈpreʃəs/
rare and worth a great deal
From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
presence
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From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
protection
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From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
seeking
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
sense
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From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
sharing
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
ShepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
sheep
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
shepherd
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From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
sky
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From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
son
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From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
sorts
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
sympathetically
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
terriblenounUS /ˈterrible/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
thanconjunctionUS /ðæn/
used to introduce the second part of a comparison
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
THEdeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading THE GARLAND-ROOM.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
thosedeterminerUS /ðoʊz/
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
thoughtnounUS /thought/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
throughnounUS /ˈthrough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
tutor
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From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
very
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From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
wentnounUS /went/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading It was nothing to her--what could it be?--that he was the son of a very humble pair; that he had been a shepherd, and a cow-herd, and a farm labourer--less than nothing.
windnounUS /wind/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading By sharing with her his emotional history, Donal had made its facts precious to her; through them he had gathered his best--by home and by prayer, by mother and father, by sheep and mountains and wind and sky.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
wouldmodal verbUS /wʊd/
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
young
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From this reading All through the terrible time, the sense of help and comfort and protection in the presence of the young tutor, went on growing in the mind of Arctura.
youth
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From this reading She never thought of the facts of his life except sympathetically, seeking to enter into the feelings of his memorial childhood and youth; she would never have known anything of those facts but for their lovely intimacies of all sorts with Nature--nature divine, human, animal, cosmical.
