“She fell in love with the cataract and turned to it as a confidant, not because of its beauty or power, but because it seemed to tell her a story which she longed to understand.”
Esther Dudley's reaction to Niagara Falls, in Ch. IX
Esther: A Novel (1884)
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Doesn't she seem the smallest of losses to us?
But deep in my heart I will always remember
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