“The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.”
More from Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.”
“So to the end when life’s dim shadows fall, Love will be found the sweetest song of all.”
“There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes…”
“It was so wonderful to be there, safe at home, sheltered from the winds and the cold.…”