New places always appealed to her more
than unfamiliar human beings; perhaps because she had seen so many of the
latter in all quarters of the globe and found so little variety in their
characters. There were good people and bad people everywhere, Louise had
found. Greedy, generous, morose, and laughing; faithful and treacherous,
the quick and the stupid; those likable at first meeting as well as those
utterly impossible. Of whatever nation and color they might be, she had
learned that under their skins they were all just human beings.
But Nature--ah! she was ever changing. This girl who had seen so much of
the world had never seen anything quite like the bits of scene she
observed from the narrow window of the car. Not beautiful, perhaps, but
suggestive and provocative of genre pictures which would remain in her
memory long afterward. There were woods and fields, cranberry bogs and
sand dunes, between the hamlets; and always through the open window the
salt tang of the air delighted her. She was almost prepared to say she
was glad she had ventured when she left the train at Paulmouth and saw
her trunks put off upon the platform.
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