simple-thoughted

Updated: July 3, 2026

I drank at the spring, and thought that now and then some one would follow me from the busy, hard-worked, and simple-thoughted countryside of the mainland, which lay dim and dreamlike in the August haze, as Joanna must have watched it many a day. There was the world, and here was she with eternity well begun.

Sarah Orne Jewett - The Country of the Pointed Firs