Yes, said Eugene, still brooding on Dixieland and his clumsydeceptions. His
father makes moremoney than any other lawyer in town.
Itake him up to Sales
with me once or twice a week and give him asquare meal. It is done with the
incomparable ease of aninspired child. His eyes burned on her face, flowing
with dark secret beauty.
Leonard was fighting hard to keep his little school
alive. His face was covered with small yellow pustulate sores. Too late, they
heard thearoused stealthy foot-falls of the master, creaking down the hall.
Her
chant, unbroken and undisturbed by his departure,followed him up the flimsy
steps.
Itpays, he added devoutly, to be a Christian. A light wind of April
fanned over the hill.
She smacked his buttock smartly with a ruler. He was
neverreleased at the dismissal hour.
She passed through their barred and bolted
boy-life with the directstride of a spirit. Dont let them hear you, said George
Graves, with a surly laugh.
He was neverreleased at the dismissal hour.
Bob
Grady dropped dead Tuesday morning ashe was coming out of the Citizens Bank.
Julius Arthur laughed roughly and thrust his hand through
Eugeneshair.
Occasionally he enclosed small checks, which she
saved,uncashed.
The ghost of old fear,that had been laid for years, walked
forth to haunt him.
John Dorsey began to laugh foolishly; he gripped his
handaffectionately around the boys arm. Miss Amy yawned, and smiled on him with
slow powerful affectionatecontempt. He had a sharp, bright,shallow mind,
inflexibly dogmatic.
Why, they dont know what theyre talking about!
You want to
fix yourself up, Gene, she said, so the girls willbegin to notice you. Theyve
dug them up later and found them turned over ontheir faces. Liquor has caused
moremisery than all the other evils in the world put together.
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