selfishness
He got her as she sank the thirdtime and swam to shore.
It was gray autumnalNovember: the mountain forests
were quilted
with dry brown leaves.
He lay upon one luxuriously, breathing thehot mattress,
and drawing his
(small)
legs up lazily.
"Keep yourdamned dirty hoof out of my mouth.
Before anotheryear well all go to the poorhouse.
(Woman,)
what are we coming to?"
It was gray autumnalNovember: the mountain
forests were
quilted with dry brown leaves.
"Ill never be able to forget his birthmark,"
Eliza whispered,
"Never, never."
TheSquare
in the wan-gray frozen morning
walled round him with
frozenunnatural
smallness.
And Altamont
lay gray and
withered in thehills,
a bleak
mean
wintry
dot.
The car
(still climbing,)
mounted the flimsy cheap-boarded brown-graysmuttiness of Skyland Avenue.
He
went home one Friday night with a chill,
said the motorman,
and the next Tuesday he was gone.
In the autumn, they barrelled huge frosty apples in thecellar.
He lay upon one luxuriously, breathing thehot mattress,
and drawing his small legs up
(lazily).
They sang asong;
the plaintive distant music haunted him.
"Why, he was a big healthy man in the prime of life,"
said Gant.
A negro bellboy sleepily wafted a gray dust-cloth across theleather.
she said,
"wave good-byto your papa."
But,
seizing a handful of
cut
sticks
and the oil-can, he lunged
(furiously)
toward the sitting-room.
The settlement was plumed delicately with ahundred tiny fumes of smoke.
Once, when Eugene waspast two, Eliza had gone to Piedmont as witness in a trial.
"If it ever lands on you, you bastard, youllthink it is a mules,"
said Gil.
Gant lavished upon it his abuse, his affection, and his prodigalprovisioning.
"Jim Bowles died while you were gone, I reckon,"
said the motorman.
(Its pretty strange when you come tothink about it.)
"Thought I hadnt seen you,"
said the motorman.
There was a crescent humming on the rails.
I shallnever forget the Old Hog as long as I live.
Eugene looked,
horror
swarmed like poison through his blood.
They sang asong;
the plaintive distant music haunted him.
Years later,
Steve,
returninghome,
said:
"That sections all built up out there now. The twowomen gave loud cries as they saw each other, and rushed together."
Years later,
Steve,
returninghome,
said:
"That sections all built up out there now."
He looked asif he had never known a days sickness in his life.
Eugene began to observe the food and theseasons.
she said,
"wave good-byto your papa."
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