Catherine By Willa Cather: A Short Story

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When Catherine opened her beautiful eyes, she was not aware of that she has lost in the chech forest. She robbed her hurt head. Along with the pain spread to her whole body, some debris of memory was being to floated in the mind.. by flounder through to stand up, the leaf heaped on her body was felled to the soil. Just like the wear vita in the ecotope. Catherine was wander away from her friends. And just fainted in there. This is a moonless night. The star hided over the cloud, and can heard the scream from any kind of animals. I screw up, catherine thought. The wind blew her face constantly, it’s warm but suddenly she felt very cold.

Catherine was tried to go straight and fellow the ………….there’s a church leaped to the eyes. That’s a very old
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Just like it have felled into decay. Suddenly there was a faint sound came from inside. just as though many people were doing a mass. The wind blew more fierce. And even the lightning appeared in the far sky. I don’t care everything now, catherine thought, the only one thing I would like to do is to stay in safe. She knocked of the door and opened that. There was almost 30 people were inside of the church. All of them wore a veil and raincoat. “ mary, mother of god, leading us to you son jesus……..” catherine sat on the last row of the church. a pale man wore a veil just sat in her right way. the church is the place which can connect to the god, but her feeling told her there were something made her uncomfortable.” miss, I suggest you leave there immediately” Unexpected the guy who sat in the right side of catherine said. With the full voice and a

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