Angels and Women (1924)

200 ANGELS AND WOMEN
by and by the moans of the animals, who
instinctively feel the coming woe. Four
moons ago I wrote in this journal my father’s
words: "Shut out of the world in this
lonely forest, your life will be eventless."
Ah, how rapid has been the march of events 1
But I cannot stop to review the past. It
seems a wonderful providence of the Holy
One that though bereaved of my parents I
am surrounded by a family fast becoming as
dear to me as my own. My brothers and
their wives I love; at first for Japheth’s sake,
but now for their own. Shem’s beautiful
wife, Asenath, is very quiet and dignified,
while Ham’s Junia is just the opposite.
Junia is irrepressible naturally, but even she
is sobered by these transcendent events.
Noah’s wife, Lydia, is most beautiful of all.
I think Japheth looks like his mother. And
Noah has indeed been a loving father to me.
I married his favorite son and that partly
accounts for his fondness for me.
After the sun went down, showing but