Confessions of a Summer Colonist (from Literature and Life)

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Confessions of a Summer Colonist by William Dean HowellsThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Confessions of a Summer Colonist From "Literature and Life"Author: William Dean HowellsRelease Date: October 22, 2004 [EBook #3387]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CONFESSIONS OF A SUMMER ***Produced by David WidgerLITERATURE AND LIFE—The Confessions of a Summer Colonistby William Dean HowellsCONFESSIONS OF A SUMMER COLONISTThe season is ending in the little summer settlement on the Down East coast where I have been passing the last threemonths, and with each loath day the sense of its peculiar charm grows more poignant. A prescience of thehomesickness I shall feel for it when I go already begins to torment me, and I find myself wishing to imagine some form ofwords which shall keep a likeness of it at least through the winter; some shadowy semblance which I may turn to hereafterif any chance or change should destroy or transform it, or, what is more likely, if I should never come back to it. Perhapsothers in the distant future may turn to it for a glimpse of our actual life in one of its most characteristic phases; I am surethat in the distant present there are many millions of our ...