Out of the Silences by Mary E. Waller 1918 Little, Brown

Out of the Silences
Mary E. Waller
Boston: Little Brown and Co. 1918
354 pages

The binding is in good condition. The pages are clean but lightly tanned, there are no names or other markings. The cover shows a small amount of edge wear. Good. Hardcover.

Chapter 1:  Winter silence is on the plain and plateau, on mountain slope, pass and summit, on every butte, in every gulch and gully, on all the river benches below the bluffs.

This all pervading silence is hushed into deeper stillness by thickly falling snow; and even the deeper stillness, which makes the eardrums of those who hear it ache, is intensified when at intervals it is broken by the howl of the gray wolf, hunger haunted.

There is audible no cry of the human; nevertheless the cry is here, only lost in the vast of a cold benumbed and snow-smothered land.  1.0  (#0000871)