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have been converted to s satisfaction in and mc the floor cared drove through an astonishing number of books from the public library and from city shops was at first uncomfortable over her habit of buying a book was a book and if you had several thousand of them right here in the library free the should you spend your ...	42
they are not of the towns they are of the farmers if these main street are by the it is only by occasional teachers doctors lawyers the labor and workmen like miles who are by being as as baked the editor and the preach at them the cloud of serene ignorance them in and here observed yes well do you know always thought...	42
why not how you hate this place how can you expect to do anything with it if you haven t any sympathy but i have and affection or else i wouldn t so learned that isn t just an on the as i thought first but as large as new york in new york i wouldn t know more than forty or fifty people and i know that many here go ...	42
raised the fund herself saw to it that the nurse was young and strong and amiable and intelligent yet all the while she beheld the cynical frenchman and the dancers as clearly as the child sees its air bom she the camp fire girls not because in s words this training will help so much to make them good wives but because...	42
turned on her li you can t be at least don t be so and now when men and are dying some of us we have given up so much and we re glad to at least we expect that you others sha n t try to be witty at our expense there was weeping did desire to see the defeated she did persuade herself that there were no save that of she...	42
the and stared at as though he had never seen the man before for once permitted herself the spiritual luxury of not asking why dear what do you say when some one gives you a present the great man was apparently waiting they stood in suspense till led them out how about planning a fishing trip he remained for half an ho...	42
i know he s got a big army back of him and hell show these lazy beggars hunting for a soft berth the poor that fall for em hell show em where they get was sorry to hear that the was coming back but she said nothing the others had looked vacant at the mention of a country so far away as russia now they edged in and aske...	42
aunt the fact that s income was now more than five thousand a year her view of the reason why had married whidi included some thoroughly praise of s kind heart her opinion of the library board just what had said about mrs s and what though of the several in the cities she went home soothed by confession by find ing a n...	42
furnace and a handy place to hang out the washing and the rest don t matter uncle a little put his face near to s and it don t i what d you care what folks think about the outside of your house it s the inside you re living in none of my business but i must say you young folks that d rather have cakes than potatoes get...	42
were the attractions two hot dog stands a and pop com stand a round and in whidi balls might be thrown at rag if one wished to throw balls at rag the dignified were shy of the but country boys with brick red necks and pale blue ties and bright yellow shoes o had t into town in somewhat dusty and were drinking pop out ...	42
haven t any list wilt i want to see you and you a christian have you given that up what next new thought or no i have not given it up es me it s kind of a knock on the you coming to see a no it isn t it s just that my faith isn t strong yet so there and besides you are kind of will i mean as a man not just as a doctor ...	42
decent affectionate girl and s a au right she s got more life to her than card has an my anyway why can t i be more like and and the rest of the oh i am but such a demanding idiot deliberately me into going up there tonight matter of principle ou not to let her get away wi it i won t go i ll call her up and her i won t...	42
seasons of she said to i we re two fat old round uie world and he echoed her round round the high adventure the secret place to they both fled was the house of miles and and steadily of the he protested what do you want to talk to that for he hinted that a former hired girl was low any for the son of dr win she did no...	42
know we won t dare risk everything by committing what is it majesty i mean they know we won t be around that if we had a co bank we could get along without well as long as i can sit and play with be and tell to about his s adventures in the woods and how he a and knew paul why i don t mind being a bum it s just for t...	42
clear lines his skin was his pulse was feeble but rapid it beat beat beat in a drum of death late that afternoon he sobbed and died did not know it she was next morning when she went she did not know that would no main street swing his sword on the door step no longer rule his subjects of the cattle yard that miles s...	42
folks think i m religious tut trying to forget washing and and mending want an office of my own and things never hear of it too late card sat on the couch and sank into fear could this of life keep up forever then would she some day so despise herself and her neighbors that she too would walk main street an old eccentr...	42
go out of her way to pass s shop and see this n she was at sunday morning service at the church in a solemn row with her husband uncle aunt despite aunt s the rarely attended church doctor asserted sure religion is a fine influence got to have it to keep the lower classes in order fact it s the only thing that appeal...	42
treasury department as i understand it instead of arising in their might and passing a law that any one admitting he is a shall simply be and as it were kicked out of this free country in which we haven t got any room for and the of satan and to for a moment especially as there are more of them in this state than there...	42
over to greet and to look here don t you suppose you better be thinking about turning in i ve got a hard day tomorrow the two were talking so intimately that they constantly interrupted each other as she went home by a husband and holding up her skirts rejoiced everything has changed i have two friends and but who s th...	42
the porch and you looked so and happy i didn t dare butt in i think it s extremely nice of you to want to be trained in in by a stage perhaps i main could help you fm a thoroughly sound and am by instinct quite hopelessly mature oh you aren t either was not very successful at accepting his with the air of amused woman...	42
beautiful things counted i was on the farm till i was nineteen is a good farmer but nothing else do you know why he first sent me off to learn i wanted to study drawing and he had a cousin that d made a lot of money out in and he said was a lot like drawing so he sent me down to a hole called to work in a tailor shop u...	42
ve decided to hold the matches or whatever you call em down at the cottages at the lake instead of here the bunch are down there now and and and everybody harry wanted to know if i d bring you down i guess i can take the time come right back after supper before could sum it all up why didn t say anything to me about t...	42
the waist to a string of jet beads at the neck it s but how it would shock mrs wouldn t iti you must let yourself go more when you re drawing don t know if i can i ve started kind of late but listen what do you think i ve done this two weeks i ve read almost dear through a latin grammar and about twenty pages of caesa...	42
emotions saw in the fact that she talked not to one of the town but to the safe himself when glanced at again she discovered that mrs had an eye on her it was a shock to know that at last there was something which could make her afraid of mrs s what am i doing am i in love with i i want youth but i don t want i mean i ...	42
can put through my schemes i really can t draw much i guess i have pretty fair taste m but since i ve known you i like to think about with dress but as a miller i d have the means books piano travel i m going to be frank and don t you realize that it isn t just because her papa needs a bright young man in the mill tha...	42
at him but she could divine his as he stumbled indoors a moment ago the night had been coldly empty now it was hot treacherous but it is women who are the calm once they the of the hunt was serene as she murmured hungry i have some little honey colored cakes you may have two and then you must home main street take me u...	42
nothing more enemies through the windows stole on her from the hall she had no one save this kind good man he was an elder brother it was her fellow outcast to whom she wanted to run for through her storm she was to the eye sitting quietly with her fingers between the pages of a baby blue book on home but her dismay a...	42
between and before the drive home without exactly describing the scene by her power of imagination the woman suggested dark country places apart from the and rude and dance steps in the bam then madness and harsh hateful conquest was too sick to interrupt it was who cried oh for god s sake quit it you any idea what hap...	42
rows of pine doors painted a sickly blue she could not the number in the darkness at the end of a corridor she had to feel the figures on the door she was startled once by a man s voice want and when she reached the right door she stood listening she made out a long sobbing there was no answer till her third knock then...	42
yard being sick i don t think m ever marry any man and then today she drove me right out of the house she wouldn t listen to me all morning just to i suppose he s oyer his headache now even at breakfast he thought the whole thing was a grand joke i suppose right this minute he s going around town about his conquest yo...	42
temples neck flat cheeks on a november evening when was in the country she answered the bell and was confused to find at the door stooped imploring his hands in the pockets of his as though he had been his speech he instantly saw your husband driving away i ve got to see you i can t stand it come for a walk i le see us...	42
better ride back jump up in front here his manner of swinging open the door was a command was conscious that was climbing in that she was apparently to sit in the back and that she had been left to open the rear door for herself instantly the wonder which had to the skies was and she was mrs w p of riding in a old car ...	42
your coat and and i she stripped them off he his watch chain felt the peered at the he shook out her main street in the hall hung them up with exactly his usual care he pushed a chair near to her and sat bolt up he looked like a physician about to give sound and advice before he could into his heavy discourse she despe...	42
artist hell come in of and from hard work and around that if it hadn t been for you he d of gone east and been a great artist sure and you ll be entertaining his relatives talk about uncle you ll be having some old coming in with on his boots and sitting down to supper in his and yelling at you hurry up now you make m...	42
work to do and me look at my hands look how i work look at those hands but you oh god no you mustn t work you re too fine to do decent work you got to play wit young fellows younger as you are laughing and rolling around and acting like de animals you let my son alone d you hear he was shaking his fist in her face she...	42
he looked up at her and said too damned wet to paint sit down and talk and so for ten minutes she lived in a romantic novel her only struggle was in not to spend all his time with the from the ten thousand other in winter is full of people from and and who having thousands of miles from their familiar villages hasten t...	42
i got out to stretch our legs and if there wasn t a drawn right up at the platform and he pointed out something i d never noticed and i was glad to learn about it seems that the gear in the is an inch longer even this chronicle of voyages harry interrupted with remarks on the advantages of the ball gear shift k gave up...	42
back she felt through the walls the spirit of small houses and righteous people at that instant she knew that in running away she had merely hidden her doubts behind the stir of travel dear god don t let me begin again she sobbed wept with her for a second she hastened down to the cellar to he was standing before the f...	42
the rights of property citizens there s a lot of folks even right here in this fair state fairest and richest of all the glorious union that stand up on their hind legs and claim that the east and europe put it all over the golden now let me nail that lie right here and now ah ha says they so jim is claiming that is as...	42
his son left him irritable he injured an event which did not directly touch them brought down his wrath in the early autumn news came from that the had forbidden an for the national league to speak anywhere in the the had defied the and announced that in a few days he would address a farmers political meeting that nigh...	42
do if you had five no hired girl and had to help with the and separate the cream like these farmers wives then you wouldn t be so discontented i know that s what most men and women like you would say that s how they would explain all i am and all i want and i shouldn t argue with them these business men from their cr...	42
and expressing opinions just as in a romantic story and my own son me because i given him religious instruction but the story doesn t go right fm neither groaning nor being saved i keep on running away and i enjoy it i m mad with joy over it is lost back there in the dust and and i look forward she continued it to darl...	42
women are given to protecting their by cynical gossip by by high church and or by a fog of had hidden in none of these from reality but she who was tender and merry had been made by even her flight had been but the temporary courage of panic the thing she gained in washington was not information about office systems an...	42
after her arrival in washington when he announced that he was coming she was not at all sure that she wished to see him she was glad that he had made the decision she had leave from the office for two days she watched him marching from the train solid assured carrying his heavy suit case and she was he was such a pers...	42
occasion for spite back home he never thought of washing dishes she took him to the obvious sights the treasury the monument the gallery the pan american building the memorial with uie beyond it and the hills and the columns of the lee mansion for all his to play there was over him a which her his eyes had depths to t...	42
chance to chase around with you i guess i never appreciated how lucky i was to have a girl with imagination and lively feet to play with so could you maybe run away and see the south with me if you wanted to you could just you could just pretend you were my sister and get an extra nurse for i ll get the best dog gone ...	42
going to ask why he s opposed to the of and ask why a always is pleased when he s called doctor and maybe ask mrs why she wears a widow s veil that looks like a dead crow the woman leader straightened and you have one thing you have a baby to that s my temptation i dream of babies or a baby and i around to see them p...	42
they had been twenty years ago and what they would be for twenty years to come with the world a possible the were at the base of the mountain a does occasionally drop a river of on even the main street best of to their astonishment and considerable injury but their cousins inherit the farms and a year or two later go b...	42
few people asked her about washington they who had most begged for his opinions were least interested in her facts she laughed at herself when she saw that she had expected to be at once a and a returned hero she was very reasonable and merry about it and it hurt just as much as ever her baby bom in august was a girl c...	42
admit that main street is as beautiful as it should i do not admit that is greater or more generous than i do not admit that dish washing is enough to satisfy all women i may not have fought the good fi it but i have kept the faith sure you bet you have said well good night sort of feels to me like it might snow tomorr...	42
dr will she had been exposed to something in every part of this what do we want she asks essentially i think you are like myself you want to go back to an age of tranquillity and charming manners you want to good taste just good taste fastidious people oh no i believe an ci us want the same things we re all together ...	42
put her hand to her mouth her forefinger and thumb quite painfully her lower lip and frowned and enjoyed being aloof a named a competent young man in a gray flannel shirt a rusty black bow tie and the green and purple class cap grumbled to her as they walked behind the others in the of the south st paul these college m...	42
rapidly to warm small feet the oil stove who and main street knows stories and the who will play with children before breakfast if they spring out of bed and close the window at the very first line of the song about which father sings while judge s scheme was to let the children read whatever they pleased and in his br...	42
young women who dance in cheese cloth in the moonlight she was taken to a party with beer hair and a russian who sang the it cannot be reported that had anything significant lo main street to say to the she was awkward with them and felt ignorant and she was shocked by the free manners which she had for years desired b...	42
than when you stand on summit avenue and look across lower town to the cliffs and the farms beyond i know but of course i ve spent nine years around the twin cities took my b a and m d over at the u and had my in a hospital in but still oh well you don t get to know folks here way you do up home i feel i ve got someth...	42
over the rail of the bridge to look down at this village in delicious fear she shrieked that she was with the height and it was an extremely human satisfaction to have a strong male snatch her back to safety instead of having a logical woman teacher or well if you re scared why don t you get away from the rail then fro...	42
it would be sweet to help so sweet as his arms moved toward her she answered all her doubts with sweet so sweet chapter m under the rolling clouds of the a moving mass of steel an irritable and rattle beneath a prolonged roar tbe t of es the smell of mi ge as as a scattering of boxes on an floor the stretch of faded ...	42
you know to change a wilderness like this was fifty years ago but already why they can hop into the ford or the and get in to the on saturday evening quicker than you could get down to em by in st paul but if it s these towns we ve been passing that the farmers main street wm to for relief from their can t you understa...	42
lands of autumn a acres to a field and gray near by but in the distance like velvet stretched over dipping the long rows of marched like soldiers in worn yellow the newly fields were black fallen on the distant slope it was a martial vigorous a little harsh by kindly gardens the expanse was relieved by of oaks with pat...	42
believe me sam can show speed to any of these from only when she was in the car did she distinguish the three people who were to accompany them the owner now at the wheel was the essence of decent self satisfaction a level eyed man rugged of neck but sleek and round of face face like the back of a spoon bowl he was at...	42
keen to get back to work sure you don t mind not a bit out of my way let me but the advocate of freedom in marriage was as much disappointed as a drooping bride at the alacrity with which he took that freedom and escaped to the world of men s affairs she gazed about their bedroom and its full crawled her the awkward l ...	42
was a tall lean shabby structure three stories of yellow wood the corners covered with pine to stone in the hotel office she could see a stretch of bare floor a line of chairs with brass between a writing desk with in mother of pearl letters upon the glass covered back the dining room beyond was a of stained table and ...	42
and brass shutting off the rear of a room which must once have been a shop a writing shelf against a wall rubbed black and scattered with official notices and army the damp yellow brick in its grounds the state bank wood the farmers national bank an temple of marble pure exquisite solitary a brass plate with t a score ...	42
in three minutes walk be to the and see lovely fellows in dress suits and bill and everything how could they have so many stores why there was one just for tobacco alone and one a lovely one the art it was for pictures and and stuff with oh the made so it looked just like a tree trunk stood on the comer of main street...	42
doctor dr s rival gasped at this insult to professional and he took an second before he recovered his social manner i ll tell you mrs he smiled at to imply that whatever he might say in the stress of being witty was not to count against him in the medical warfare there s some people in town that say the is a fair to an...	42
because i had to stop and fill the and we ran along just keeping up a good steady gait mr did finally for reasons and purposes admitted justified attain to new once only once the presence of the alien was recognized leaned over and said say have you been reading this two out in tales the fellow that wrote it certainl...	42
the box of into the back crying to each other that it was a magnificent day had borrowed elder s red and white english a complacent dog with a waving tail of silver hair which in the sunshine as they started the dog and leaped at the horses heads till took him into the where he s knees and leaned out to sneer at farm t...	42
d be fine for you wouldn t it but why shouldn t they why that bunch of telling me oh for heaven s sake let s quit arguing all this discussing may be all right at a party but let s forget it while we re hunting i know the probably it s a worse affliction than the i just wonder she told herself that she had everything i...	42
person to have is a sense of humor i don t know i really haven t much said he shook his finger at her now now you re too modest i m sure we can all see that you have a perfectly sense of humor besides dr wouldn t marry a lady that didn t have we all know how he loves his fun you bet i m a old bird come on let s beat it...	42
the girl clerk and she did not remember the mute with him on her first view of main street she could not find half the kinds of food she wanted but that made more of an adventure when she did main street contrive to get at s meat market the was so vast that she with excitement and admired the strong wise butcher mr she...	42
rest room for farmers wives and they do take such an interest in refinement and culture so in fact so very unique was disappointed by nothing very she said politely think them all over i must have a while to look first miss darted to her smoothed her hair peered at her oh my dear don t you suppose i know these first ...	42
in the the and painters who did not actually assist crossed the lawn to peer through the windows and exclaim main street looks swell at the store harry and at the bon ton repeated daily how s the good work coming i hear the house is getting to be real even mrs mrs lived across the alley from the rear of s house she was...	42
money at breakfast but she couldn t hurt his feelings she reflected he liked the of giving she tried to reduce the of begging by opening accounts and having the bills sent to him she had foimd that sugar flour could be most purchased at s rustic general store she said sweetly to i think i d better open a charge here i ...	42
serving before cried from the bay window in the living room here comes somebody and mr and mrs faltered in at a quarter to eight then in a shy arrived the entire aristocracy of all persons engaged in a profession or earning more than twenty five hundred dollars a year or possessed of born in america even while they wer...	42
anything whatever about chinese but he had read a book on the subject as on lonely evenings in his office he had read at least one book on every subject in the world s thin maturity was changing in her vision to flushed youth and they were an island in the yellow sea of chatter when she realized that the guests were be...	42
shore the ice tipped in the wind and oak twigs with stubborn last leaves hung against a sky harry did figure and was certain that she had found the perfect life but when snow had ended the and she tried to get up a moonlight sliding party the hesitated to stir away from their and their daily bridge of the city she had ...	42
up to bed next day through her her mind sat back and observed and sam were as cordial as she had been but wasn t there an in the h are of the was was that merely his usual manner it s to have to pay attention to what people think in st paul i didn t care but here i m on main street they re watching me i mustn t let it ...	42
poured from an ware pot stuffed and angel s food cake there was even in the most strictly circles a certain as to the need not be stuffed were in some houses well thought of as a substitute for the hot rolls but there was in all the town no save who omitted angel s food main street they ate had a suspicion that the mad...	42
cabinet meetings and labor in and rome and boston and the who deemed themselves leaders were but the raised voices of a a million with a hundred thousand trying to away the storm felt guilty she devoted herself to admiring the miss and immediately committed another against the laws of decency we haven t seen you at th...	42
resented her broad a were sure it was affected of course they have discussed you have they talked about me much my dear i always feel as though i walked around in a cloud looking out at others but not being seen i feel so and so normal so normal that there s nothing about me to discuss i can t realize that mr and mrs ...	42
they didn t fun at my feast that i ordered so carefully for them aud my little chinese costume that i was so happy making i made it secretly to surprise them and they ve been it all this while she was huddled on the couch was her hair muttering i shouldn t in shame did not know when slipped away the clock s bell at ha...	42
she was through a chill dusk happy in yellow windows against gray night her as she realized that a head covered with a shawl was thrust up over a snow tipped bush to watch her she admitted that she was taking herself too seriously that at every one she became placid and thought fell of her philosophy but next morning s...	42
dollar but was a in he returned with an entirely new group and this time there were three and a rattle when again interrupted his you got to give us two dollars and he got it a week later a to a window of the living room and the out of the darkness frightened into screaming since then in four months she had beheld hang...	42
mischief making queens had used before her and which a million million women will know hereafter was it all a horrible mistake my him she the doubt without answering it io main street iv had taken her north to qui in the big woods it was the entrance to a indian a sandy settlement among pines on the shore of a huge sn...	42
but to have him isolated here all his years and so to bed have i found my real level in and kitchen gossip oh i do miss you will but it will be pleasant to over in bed as often as i want to without worrying about waking you up am i really this settled thing called a married woman i feel so unmarried tonight so free to ...	42
tossed his coat into the lowered himself into the barrel chair and on i m probably a but by i do keep my independence by doing odd and that s more n these polite like the clerks in the banks do when i m rude to some it may be partly because i don t know better and god knows i m not no authority on trick forks and what ...	42
dropped it when she sat on the couch her chin in her hands a volume of on her knees and read aloud instantly she was released from the homely comfort of a town she was in the world of lonely things the flutter of twilight the aching call of along a shore to which the foam crept out of darkness the island of and the el...	42
was promised such a group and yet it puts you in touch with all the intellectual thoughts that are going on everywhere early in march mrs wife of the physician marched into s room like an amiable old and suggested my dear you really must come to the this afternoon mrs is going to be leader and the poor soul is frighten...	42
humble beauty i am so sorry i have not got the time to quote some of them mrs george gave ten minutes to and mrs a faced curiously sweet woman so main street awed by her that wanted to kiss her completed the day s grim task by a paper on other poets the other poets worthy of consideration were gray mrs and miss oblige...	42
as though she were shaking off water and hastened into the library a young light amiable presence modest in fur coat blue suit fresh collar and tan boots from snow miss stared at her and i was so sorry not to see you at the yesterday said you might come oh you went to the did you enjoy it so much such good papers on th...	42
listening to mrs s of how many thousands of farmers wives used the rest room every year and how much they appreciated the kindness of the ladies in providing them with this lovely place and all free she thou t kindness nothing the kind ladies husbands get the farmers trade this is mere commercial accommodation and it s...	42
try to make my gracious no i we can t afford it taxes are much too high as it is we ought to and not let the city council spend another cent don t you think that was a grand paper mrs read about i was so glad she pointed out how all his silly ideas failed w t mrs said was what said that evening main street not in twent...	42
the campaign and the responsibility for the rest room to say nothing of the fact that we ve talked of trying to get the railroad to put in a park at the station i think so too said madam she glanced uneasily at miss but what do you think smiled at each of the committee and announced well i don t believe we d better st...	42
with a of broken down chairs tables on wooden walls and they were so thin walled and so close together that you could and did hear a baby being in the fifth cottage off but they were set among elms and on a bluff which looked across the lake to fields of wheat sloping up to green woods here the forgot social and sat ...	42
more interested in than the jolly seventeen but also in i ll with them or slide or throw just as gladly as talk with you oh no yes but they want to stay home and perhaps i m not defending the town it s merely i m a confirmed of myself probably i m conceited about my lack of conceit anyway isn t particularly bad it s li...	42
class there is a ruling class despite all our professions of is main street and the penalty we rulers pay is that our subjects watch us every minute we can t get drunk and we have to be so correct about sex morals and clothes and doing our commercial only in the ways that none of us can live up to it and we become horr...	42
a room behind his office same as i do here they don t know much of anybody i ve heard of them and i ve never thought to call i m horribly ashamed do bring them she stopped for no very clear reason but his expression said her faltering admitted that they wished they had never mentioned the with enthusiasm he said splend...	42
and wiu what do you think of dr why i noticed him on the street today was he if the poor fish would have his teeth x bet nine and a half cents he d find an there he calls it hell he s behind the times wonder he doesn t himself a profound and serious i hate to break up the party but it s getting late and a doctor never ...	42
heads attached she begged i didn t mean to wake you up dear and please don t smoke you ve been smoking so much please go back to sleep i m sorry being sorry s all right but i m going to tell you one or two things this falling for anybody s say so about medical jealousy and competition is simply part and parcel of your ...	42
fair too and you re so high and mighty about people take sam best soul that ever lived honest and loyal and a damn good fellow yes and a good shot at ducks don t forget that main street well and he is a good shot too sam drops around in the evening to sit and visit and by just because he takes a dry smoke and rolls his...	42

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