Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

Alive enough to have strength to die

She was in person full-limbed and somewhat heavy; without ruddiness, as without pallor; and soft to the touch as a cloud. To see her hair was to fancy that a whole winter did not contain darkness enough to form its shadow: it closed over her forehead like nightfall extinguishing the western glow.