Opening a Chestnut Burr

But Miss Walton reminded him of a young sugar maple that he had noticed allaflame from his window that morning so rich and high was her color as stillintent upo... » 

But Miss Walton reminded him of a young sugar maple that he had noticed allaflame from his window that morning so rich and high was her color as stillintent upon the thickly scattered nuts she followed the old unspent childishimpulse to gather now as she had done when of Susies age. With a halfwondering smile Gregory watched her intent expression so like that of theother children and thought Well she is the freshest and most unhackneyedgirl I have ever met for one who knows so much. It seems true as she saidthat she draws her life from nature and will never grow old. «