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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Edith Wharton
Happiness, Butterfly, Winter
Edith Wharton (2005). “Ethan Frome - Literary Touchstone”, p.85, Prestwick House Inc

He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.

Edith Wharton
Loneliness, Winter, Profound
Ethan Frome preface (1911)

The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

Edith Wharton
Spring, Winter, Shining
Edith Wharton (2016). “Ethan Frome”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.

Edith Wharton
Winter, Night, Light
Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.97, Booklassic

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