Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 100Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1920 - American literature |
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Page 16
... road to wait for the rural postman , glad that Ed was working in the far end of the field , so that he could not see her . She would tell him about it in good time , and she pictured the relief that would come to his sober young face ...
... road to wait for the rural postman , glad that Ed was working in the far end of the field , so that he could not see her . She would tell him about it in good time , and she pictured the relief that would come to his sober young face ...
Page 17
... a gray dust from the road . " We won't make nothing if this here drought don't break , " Ed declared in desperation one day as he pushed his plate from him at the table . Bessie lifted a drawn and haggard face . " I THE DROUGHT 17.
... a gray dust from the road . " We won't make nothing if this here drought don't break , " Ed declared in desperation one day as he pushed his plate from him at the table . Bessie lifted a drawn and haggard face . " I THE DROUGHT 17.
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... road and lay looking forlornly at them , his tongue hanging far out of his mouth , his bony sides quivering . He seemed mutely to entreat some reason for this suffering he had to endure . The half- dozen chickens , huddled in the shade ...
... road and lay looking forlornly at them , his tongue hanging far out of his mouth , his bony sides quivering . He seemed mutely to entreat some reason for this suffering he had to endure . The half- dozen chickens , huddled in the shade ...
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... road , but there was little passing . It was as if life had been sus- pended for a time because of the heat . It was mid - afternoon when she saw Ed come dragging up the road as if he could hardly lift one foot ahead of the other , his ...
... road , but there was little passing . It was as if life had been sus- pended for a time because of the heat . It was mid - afternoon when she saw Ed come dragging up the road as if he could hardly lift one foot ahead of the other , his ...
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... roads , the forces of occupation carried matters with somewhat too energetic a hand . The na- tives were not particularly ... road - building in his own local- ity . When they were driven from their huts at the point of a gendarme rifle ...
... roads , the forces of occupation carried matters with somewhat too energetic a hand . The na- tives were not particularly ... road - building in his own local- ity . When they were driven from their huts at the point of a gendarme rifle ...
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