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Then she started homeward, with Simon close upon her heels, and as she crossed the cloud-darkened claim, she glanced again at the shack. Its windows were in shadow, its door almost obscured. There was a smirk on its twisted face. But when, entering the house, she met Lounsbury's kind, level look, the distrust she had felt unconsciously vanished.
One does not readily forget such an impressive moment. It remains a joy forever. It is curious how sensitive the judgment is to external influences. Nothing is more likely to produce a fixed and unfavorable impression of a new place than to approach it beneath a cheerless, cloud-darkened sky, while bored by some personal annoyance.
The swift transition from despair to joy proved too much for Dick; and, besides, the fever was in his blood and he was grievously burned. So we went stumbling on through the cloud-darkened wood, locked arm in arm like three drunken men, tripping over root snares and bramble nets spread for our feet, and getting well sprinkled by the dripping foliage.
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