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Updated: May 12, 2025
Still responding to the freshening impulse of the June rains, fields and woods are all a-quiver with growth. By master magic soil-water and sunshine are being changed into color and form to delight the eye and food to do the world's work. Every tree is a picture, each leaf is as fresh and clean as the rain-washed air of the morning.
The ascending clouds of aroma wind-rolled and rain-washed became pure like light and traveled with the wind as part of it. Toward the middle of the afternoon the main flood cloud lifted along its western border revealing a beautiful section of the Sacramento Valley some twenty or thirty miles away, brilliantly sun-lighted and glistering with rain-sheets as if paved with silver.
The humid rain-washed days, so common in England, are beautiful enough, with their rolling cloud-ranges and their soft mistiness: but the clear sparkle of this brighter weather, summer without its haze, intensifying each tone of colour and sharply defining each several tint, has a special beauty of form as well as of hue. I walked with Father Payne far among the fields.
Thus they talked and read and sang a little more, while the rain fell gently without. "This is a beautiful country," said Chester, looking out of the window. "I do not blame people who have money, desiring to live here." Lucy came to the window also, and they stood looking out on the rain-washed green. The father lay still in his chair, and presently he went to sleep.
What queer little hooked noses the Mullers all had! and that reflection swung her mind round to her lover and his love-making, where it rested, until suddenly the fire grew a hazy red blotch and her head began to bob. "I did not use to be so thick-headed," rousing herself, and staring sleepily at the rain-washed window and the crackling fire.
For the moment his professional errand escaped him as his chest expanded in the light wind which blew over the radiant stillness of the Virginian June. From the cloudless sky to its pure reflection in the rain-washed roads there was barely a descending shade, and the tufts of dandelion blooming against the rotting rail fence seemed but patches of the clearer sunshine.
But very often during that rainy winter after her marriage Trina would pause in her work, her hands falling idly into her lap, her eyes her narrow, pale blue eyes growing wide and thoughtful as she gazed, unseeing, out into the rain-washed street. She loved McTeague now with a blind, unreasoning love that admitted of no doubt or hesitancy.
And Will, seeing her there, would tear into the house and drag her by the hand forth into the sweet, rain-washed air. "An' see, Mother," he would tell her, as he haled her on to the sward beyond the arbor, "here it is, the story you told us yester-e'en. Here is the ring where they danced last night, the little folk, an' here is the glow-worm caught in the spider's web to give them light."
They came to rising ground, and mounting it, found themselves upon a chinquepin ridge, and before them an abrupt descent of rain-washed, boulder-strewn earth. It was so nearly a precipice that Patricia shrunk back with an exclamation of dismay. "I will go first," said Landless. "Give me your hands. So!" Half way down, the earth began to slip.
I will do anything you wish, only come! Come! Come!" "You promise?" "At once?" She hung up the receiver, turned, and flung open the window. Over the wet woods a rain-washed moon glittered; the long storm had passed.
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