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Ellen gradually lost her tense rigidity and relaxed Her body softened She rolled over until her face caught the lacy, golden shadows cast by sun and bough Scattered drops of rain pattered around her The air was hot, and its odor was that of dry pine and spruce fragrance penetrated by bri The nest where she lay arm and sweet No eye save that of nature saw her in her abandonment An ineffable and exquisite smile wreathed her lips, dreamy, sad, sensuous, the supremity of unconscious happiness Over her dark and eloquent eyes, as Ellen gazed upward, spread a lu intensely, yet she did not see The wilderness enveloped her with its secretive, eleh her thrilling skin poured the anism stirred to supreme sensitiveness She could not lie still, but all herout of her hand, to grasp at nothing visible, was si of her limbs, to the heave of her breast, to the ripple of muscle

Ellen knew not what she felt To live that subliht Such happiness was like the first dawn of the world to the sight of es Her heart, her blood, her flesh, her very bones were filled with instincts and emotions coe lived only with his sensorial perceptions Of all happiness, joy, bliss, rapture to which man was heir, that of intense and exquisite preoccupation of the senses, unhindered and unburdened by thought, was the greatest Ellen felt that which life n Love was only the realization of her mission on the earth

The dark stor and down-strea like a colored sea to the diht of the sun--these had enchanted her eyes with her beauty of the universe They had burst the s of her blindness When she crawled into the green-brown covert it was to escape too great perception She needed to be encos And there her body paid the tribute to the realization of life Shock, convulsion, pain, relaxation, and then unutterable and insupportable sensing of her environment and the heart! In one way she was a wild ani that meant reproduction of its kind In another she was an infinitely higher being shot through and through with the ive to flesh