"The day was mildly overcast, but nothing in the air ortemperature gave any hint of the sudden force in which the deadly gale would strike
""It was when the two were in midair, their hands just about too meet, that lightning struck the main pole and sizzled down the guy wires, filling the air with a blue radiance..."
"He bought her her first books , and over her bold letters, which the pale guides of penmanship pads could not contain, they fell in love.
"I was seven the year the house caught fire, probably from the standing ash.