1 "It's like being in an exhausted receiver," he thought.
2 "Well, I'd like to talk to you about it," said Zeena obstinately.
3 He felt as if he had never before known what his wife looked like.
4 Her wonder and his laughter ran together like spring rills in a thaw.
5 The wave of warmth that went through him was like the prolongation of his vision.
6 In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.
7 And he pictured what it would be like that evening, when he and Mattie were there after supper.
8 Its icy slope, scored by innumerable runners, looked like a mirror scratched by travellers at an inn.
9 "I know I ain't anything like as smart as I ought to be," she went on, while he vainly struggled for expression.
10 "Maybe she's forgotten it," Mattie said in a tremulous whisper; but both of them knew that it was not like Zeena to forget.
11 The face she lifted to her dancers was the same which, when she saw him, always looked like a window that has caught the sunset.
12 But it was not only that the coming to his house of a bit of hopeful young life was like the lighting of a fire on a cold hearth.
13 The crash of a loaded branch falling far off in the woods reverberated like a musket-shot, and once a fox barked, and Mattie shrank closer to Ethan, and quickened her steps.
14 "I wouldn't ever have it said that I stood in the way of a poor girl like Mattie marrying a smart fellow like Denis Eady," Zeena answered in a tone of plaintive self-effacement.
15 The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white and scintillating fields patches of far-off forest hung like smoke.
16 The dancers were going faster and faster, and the musicians, to keep up with them, belaboured their instruments like jockeys lashing their mounts on the home-stretch; yet it seemed to the young man at the window that the reel would never end.
17 For the first time they would be alone together indoors, and they would sit there, one on each side of the stove, like a married couple, he in his stocking feet and smoking his pipe, she laughing and talking in that funny way she had, which was always as new to him as if he had never heard her before.
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