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no longer difficult; how remote and absurd it seemed.
 

      It was a gracious chance that brought me to the Point just as Nellie was leaving. ‘Breaking off’ was no longer difficult. That puttering kettle — how remote and absurd it seemed.
      Descending late in the afternoon, my hills seemed to shine upon me, reflecting happy restoration. I passed by the pasture ridge where the silence was tapped by the falling chestnuts, and felt no impulse to defeat the squirrels and gophers of their prize.

ex Olive Tilford Dargan. “Highland Annals, II. Coretta and Autumn.” The Atlantic Monthly (June 1919) : 731-740 (739)
Stanford copy/scan (via google books) : link

Olive Tilford Dargan. Highland Annals (1925) : 49
U Michigan copy/scan (via google books) : link
same (via hathitrust) : link
 

1. Olive Tilford Dargan (1869-1968), North Carolina teacher, writer, poet
   wikipedia : link

   which points to :
   Rob Neufeld “Visiting Our Past: The bag lady of Swain County was a literary light”
   Asheville Citizen-Times (21 January 2018) : link (accessed 20240816)

2. review of Highland Annals
   The New York Times (October 25, 1925) : link   (paywall)
3. obituary
   The New York Times (January 24, 1968) : link   (paywall)
    

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