"What is it in these circumstances?" said Elizabeth quickly.
"Not a hardship."
"You don't say much more than you are obliged to," thought Elizabeth bitterly. "It is 'not a hardship' to stay there to take care of me; — and there is not in the world another person left to me who could say even as much." —
"There is a silent peace-speaking in such a scene as this," presently said Winthrop, lying on his sail and looking at the river.
"I dare say there is," Elizabeth answered sadly.
"You cannot feel it, perhaps?"
"Not a particle. I can just see that it might be."
"The Bible makes such constant use of natural imagery, that to one familiar with it, the objects of nature bring back as constantly its teachings — its warnings — its consolations."
"What now?" said Elizabeth.
"Many things. Look at those deep and overlapping shadows. 'As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth'" —