House Divided (2012)
“This was her first deep draught of the pleasant gaieties of which she had so often dreamed. In her early girlhood her mother, in order to appear to be as youthful as possible, kept her a child. Enid by captivating Trav took her revenge for that, but as Trav’s wife she found herself condemned to an existence even narrower than as her mother’s daughter. Trav was older than she by seventeen years; but also he was older than his years, slow and silent, with no gift for laughter and no keen zest for... anything except the patient routine of the farmer. You could no more hurry him than you could hurry a grain of corn from germination to bearing. You could no more swerve him than you could retard the sluggish pendulum of the years. The pursuits that meant so much to him; to ride the place, to watch the people at their tasks, to pore over his records and by a study of the past anticipate the future—these meant nothing to her. In their first weeks she often kept him company on his daily rounds; but when he became engrossed in some problem of the land he was as likely as not to ride for an hour in absorbed silence, without seeming to hear her attempts at conversation.MoreLess
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