This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by a famous poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem, "Alone in the Forest," is about a young man who falls in love with a forest girl. The young man, who is a member of the silver-edge family, asks Longfellow to marry him, but Longfellow declines, saying that he would prefer to marry a woman from the other side of the family.
This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by a famous poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem, "Alone in the Forest," is about a young man who falls in love with a forest girl. The young man, who is a member of the silver-edge family, asks Longfellow to marry him, but Longfellow declines, saying that he would prefer to marry a woman from the other side of the family.