... man from himself. He manifested a clear genuine curiosity for the sciences. He went to a technical college to nurture and sustain his energy. Unfortunately, this effort to educate himself ended when his father died. "He had always been more sensitive than the people about him to the appeal to natural beauty... His unfinished studies had given form to this sensibility... But hitherto the emotion had remained in him as a silent ache, veiling ... since that it would not have happened if his mother had died in the spring instead of the winter" (52). In Ethan's mind, the winter was a time of...

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