After the epigaea and the hepatica have opened, there is a slight pause among the wild-flowers,these two forming a distinct prologue for their annual drama, as the brilliant witch-hazel in October brings up its separate epilogue.

Annie's hair is dark brown, and she has full dark eyesit is difficult to say whether brown or deep hazel.

Half way to the thicket a stick cracked loudly under his foot and as the sound startled the dead quiet of the forest with pistol-shot clearness there came another cry from the dense hazel, a cry which was neither that of man nor animal but of a woman; and with an answering shout Nathaniel sprang forward to meet there in the edge of the thicket the white face and outstretched arms of Marion.

Her eyes were unusually clear, light hazel with flecks of gray and green.

Everything is taken down and put away; throughout the leafy arcades the branches show no remnant of last year, save a few twisted leaves of oak and beech, a few empty seed-vessels of the tardy witch-hazel, and a few gnawed nutshells dropped coquettishly by the squirrels into the crevices of the bark.