Excerpt from In Cure of Her Soul

It was a little nook of a meadow, sloping to a point where the forest edges met. Behind, the hill rose, rocky, covered close with old dwarfed trees. The sun lay hot in the little triangle of lawn, but from the narrow combe below came a strong draught of cool salt air. There the Sea lay, masked.

Altogether one of the sweetest of those sweet places on the Beverly shore where the sea and forest touch: appreciated as such by the good taste of Mrs Arthur Shirley and thought worthy, with out alteration, of forming a nook within her lawn.

Had you asked young Austin Pinckney, four-and-twenty as he lay there, whether the drama of his life lay yet behind him, I think he would have been honest enough to tell you No. Most young men, however young, fancy they have had experiences, as they fancy always that they are in love: they want to be, and it is quite enough if they like any one girl better than another.

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