Angels and Women (1924)

200 ANGELS AND WOMENby and by the moans of the animals, whoinstinctively feel the coming woe. Fourmoons ago I wrote in this journal my father’swords: "Shut out of the world in thislonely forest, your life will be eventless."Ah, how rapid has been the march of events 1But I cannot stop to review the past. Itseems a wonderful providence of the HolyOne that though bereaved of my parents Iam surrounded by a family fast becoming asdear to me as my own. My brothers andtheir wives I love; at first for Japheth’s sake,but now for their own. Shem’s beautifulwife, Asenath, is very quiet and dignified,while Ham’s Junia is just the opposite.Junia is irrepressible naturally, but even sheis sobered by these transcendent events.Noah’s wife, Lydia, is most beautiful of all.I think Japheth looks like his mother. AndNoah has indeed been a loving father to me.I married his favorite son and that partlyaccounts for his fondness for me.After the sun went down, showing but