Chapter

1 II | August (she was then eighteen years old), they~persuaded her
2 II |       thwarted, paused.~ ~For years, this occurrence was a topic
3 III|  Perhaps he might be~away two years.~ ~The prospect of his departure
4 III|      relieved and consoled.~ ~Years passed, all alike and marked
5 III|   only data to which in later years~they often referred. Thus,
6 IV |     she had an earache. Three years later she was stone deaf,
7 IV |        when he~was thirty-six years old, by a divine inspiration,
8 IV |        being just seventy-two~years old.~ ~People thought that
9 IV |     shutters after that. Many~years passed. But the house did