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don t be a fool you will very soon find out whether i m a fool or not i mean it do you think i d stay here one second after i found out that i was you at least i have enough sense of justice not to do that please stop flying off at this let me tell you isn t a play it s a serious effort to have us get together on we ve...	42
i won t call on the and if dr is working for and i hate him chapter xv that december she was in love with her husband she herself not as a great but as the wife of a country physician the realities of the doctor s household were colored by her pride late at night a step on the wooden porch heard through her confusion o...	42
and drinking in a month the sat on the couch in a man s coat and of the silk handkerchief which she had worn over her head now hung about her neck her white wool gloves lay in her lap drew from the injured leg the thick red german the other of gray and white wool then the the leg was of an dead white with the black hai...	42
not drink too much beer all right his voice was hearty he looked at he was a medical machine now not a domestic machine what is it he no hurry just wanted to say well self pity because he did not divine that this was a party rendered her sad and interesting to herself and she had the pleasure of the n s in sa bravely t...	42
to be allowed to think she can the wool over our eyes the sooner she s sent to the school for girls down at centre the better for all and won t you just have a cup of coffee i m sure you won t mind old calling you by your first name when you think how long i ve known will and i was such a friend of his dear lovely moth...	42
the north pole low hill bottom creek mound fields with frozen brown thrust up the snow her ears and nose were pinched her breath her her fingers ached getting colder she said that was all their conversation for three miles yet she was happy they reached s at four and with a throb she recognized the courageous venture ...	42
was covered with a sheet like a corpse and outside the sheet was his right arm wrapped in stained with blood but strode into the other room gaily and she followed him with surprising delicacy in his large fingers be the and revealed an arm which below the elbow was a mass of blood and raw flesh the man the room grew th...	42
were fun when i was a girl had to stay home from court and we d stand at the window and watch the snow main street not much fun on the get lost to death take no chances he at the horses they were flying now the carriage rocking on the hard the whole air suddenly into large damp the horses and the robe were covered with...	42
he read sporting and thought about remarkable past shots member that time when i got two ducks on a long chance just at at least once a month he drew his favorite repeating his pump gun from its of flannel he the and spent silent moments at the ceiling sunday mornings heard him up to the and there an hour later she fou...	42
characteristic of he laughed when they came into the glow of the house he laughed again he condescended i ve got to hand it to you you re consistent all right i d of thought that after getting this look in at a lot of good decent farmers you d get over this high art stuff but you hang right on well to herself he takes ...	42
that we want our now and we re going to try our hands at it all we want everything for all of us for every and every and every and every teacher we want everything we sha n t get it so we sha n t ever be content she wondered why he was he broke in see here my dear i certainly hope you don t class yourself with a lot o...	42
sure you d like him fine when he drove off he waved to and lonely at the window above was envious of their pastoral and i but i will go on chapter they were driving down the lake to the cottages that january night twenty of them in the bob they sang toy land and seeing home they leaped from the low back of the to race ...	42
boxes of and the variety of magazines at the news stand the hidden was lively she saw a man who looked like a european in a loose top coat and a hat a woman with a coat a heavy lace veil pearl and a close black hat entered the heavens that s the first really smart woman ive seen in a year i she felt but as she followed...	42
never known in their days of in college they were distinguished and they remarked in great mutual esteem i bet harry s never seen the city like this why he d never have sense enough to study the machinery in the mills or go through all these districts wonder folks in wouldn t use their legs and explore the way we do th...	42
company of boston sent a check for a hundred dollars sam added twenty five and brought the fund to fondly crying there that ll give you a start for putting the thing across swell she the second floor of the city hall for two months all through the spring the association thrilled to its own talent in that dismal room th...	42
at the church they gaily came in half an hour late or they came in ten minutes early and they were so hurt that whispered about when protested they i don t think i d better come out afraid the might start my or guess can t make it tonight wants me to sit in on a game when after a month of labor as many as nine of the c...	42
to my face they were they examined s box they the scent of paint every minute they ran out to peep through the hole in the curtain they came back to inspect their and they read on the walls of the dressing rooms the pencil the comedy company and this is a bum and felt that they were companions of these vanished smart i...	42
decent price for our potatoes even though folks in the cities were howling for em so we says well we ll get a and ship em right down to but the commission merchants there were in with the main street local here they said they wouldn t pay us a cent more than he would not even if they was nearer to the market well we fo...	42
that the wise elders might be so as to listen to her suggestions about changing the of the yet after four of the library board she was where she had been before the first she had foimd that for all their pride in being reading men and and even had no conception of making the library familiar to the whole town they used...	42
to main street property as elsewhere he had elevated and served as gods the mines cotton mills army the east remembered generations when there had been no railroad and had no awe of it but here the had been before time was the towns had been out on barren as convenient points for future train and back in i and there ha...	42
rest for from the itself she got nothing but wind and and heavy ter the ter of at old jokes a and primitive like the cries of beasts on a farm these were the several in the university s seven day course nine four of them ex ministers and one an all of them delivering addresses main street i the only facts or opinions w...	42
thinking up when s mother came down to stay with brother for two months was fond of mrs she could not carry out her she felt she had been by the town she was aunt s niece and she was to be a mother she was expected she almost expected herself to sit forever talking of babies the price of potatoes and the tastes of husb...	42
not an and distressing traitor to the faith of main street the settled citizen believes that the rebel is constantly m a of complaining and hearing of a he what an awful person she must lie a holy terror main street to live with glad my folks are satisfied things way they are it was not so much as five minutes a day th...	42
her knee she sprang up started and to wash the dishes he helped her he main street was too lazy to adventure further and too used to women in his profession she was grateful for the of his talk it enabled her to gain control she knew that she had skirted wild thoughts a month after on a party imder the robes in the bo...	42
she comes rushing in and expects in one year to change the whole town into a p paradise with everybody stopping everything else to grow and drink tea and it s a old town too she had such an outburst after each of s for better for plays for more human schools but she never betrayed herself and always she was penitent ...	42
had seen it on a summer trip to cape have you been clear to cape i knew you d but i never realized you d been that far made taller and by his interest she poured out oh my yes it was a wonderful trip so many points of interest through historical there s where we turned back the and s home at cambridge and cape just e...	42
the house he came up with her stayed her flight by a hand on her shoulder oh don t don t what does it matter she begged she was sobbing her soft soaked with tears who cares for my affection or help i might as well drift on forgotten o ray please don t hold me let me go i ll just decide not to renew my contract here and...	42
for from them she got the same confused desire which the million other women felt the same determination to be class conscious without discovering the class of which she was to be conscious certainly her reading her observations of main street of her and of the several adjacent which she had seen on drives with in her ...	42
only dull but mean bitter with curiosity in france or quite as much as in or these are in main street but a village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether and pure which to succeed england as the chief of the world is no longer merely provincial no longer and in its leaf ignorance it is a force seeking...	42
the gods and empty even of incense and the sound of passengers looking from trains saw her as a village woman of fading virtue and no the heard her say oh yes i do think it will be a good example for the children and all the while she saw herself running through the streets of planting led her to she never got much far...	42
the street and he how s tricks things going fine with me got two new cows well have you become a eh sure they ll bring the of death yes in every war since the garden of the workmen have gone out to fight each other for perfectly good reasons handed to them by their now me i m wise i m so wise that i know i don t know...	42
yes he probably would make a woman fall in love with him but it wouldn t last a week i d get tired of his confounded his h he s a spiritual bully he makes me rude to him in self oh yes he is glad main street to be here he does like us he s so ood an actor that he his own self i d hate him in boston he d have all the ob...	42
looked vacant at the mention of a country so far away as russia now they edged in and asked what he thought about the car in oil wells the comparative merits of young men born in and in the question of the future cost of and wasn t it true that american put it all over these they were glad to find that he agreed with t...	42
like you prominent men do quite a reasonable amount of harm by that your native towns and native states are perfect it s you who the not to change they quote you and go on believing that they live in paradise and she clenched her fist the incredible of it suppose you were right even so don t you think you waste a lot o...	42
to her that she was not a wife alone but a girl that there still were men in the world as there had been in college days that admiration led her to study to tear at the of intimacy to perceive the strangeness of the most familiar chapter xxiv all that month was sensitive to she recalled a hundred her comic dismay at hi...	42
every week but when she had begged him to throw the shirt away last sunday morning at the crisis of the weekly bath he had uneasily protested oh it ll wear quite a while yet main street he was shaved by himself or more by only three times a week this morning had not been one of the three times yet he was vain of his ne...	42
not that you have to laugh at dr so much but my man heavens now there s a rare old bird story books when he ou t to be tending to business i say to him you re a romantic old fool and does he get angry he does not he and sa rs yes my beloved folks do say that married people grow to resemble each other him mrs laughed co...	42
and substantial looking with in a nice brown stain instead of seen some in you re way off your base when you say i only like one kind of house i uncle and aunt came in one evening when was a rose garden cottage you ve had a lot of e q with housekeeping and don t you think appealed that it would be sensible to have a n...	42
this year and no sense going till we can do it right the weariness of dish washing had increased her desire she pictured herself looking at s bathing in a surf of and ivory wearing a and summer main street fur meeting an aristocratic stranger in the spring had volunteered s pose you d like to get in a good long tour ...	42
square and bright as she ought to of been an artist or a writer or one of those things but once she took a shot at living here she ought to stick by it pretty lord yes but cold she simply doesn t know what passion is she simply hasn t got an i how hard it is for a full blooded man to go on pretending to be satisfied wi...	42
ve been stepping on their pet religious oh the mill keeps dropping in and that and one fellow from elder s factory and a few but you know be big good hearted like her wants a lot of folks around likes to fuss over em never satisfied unless she herself out making coffee for somebody once she me and me to the church i ...	42
the healing of sleep at night during the second week s powerful legs were spots of a delicate pink came out on his chest and back his cheeks sank he looked frightened his tongue was brown and his confident voice to a bewildered murmur ceaseless and had stayed on her feet too long at the beginning the moment had ordered...	42
he never gets the fact they re him oh i think it s just too funny the jolly seventeen laughed and laughed with them mrs jack elder added that this had confided to mrs that he would love to design clothes for women imagine mrs had had a glimpse of him but honestly she d thought he was awfully handsome this was instantl...	42
main street let the and the farmers league kill all our and enterprise by fixing wages and prices there isn t any movement that to a without it s got a moral background and let me tell you that while folks are about what they call and and science and a lot of things that are nothing in the world but a disguise for the ...	42
t he too obviously smart too glossy new like a actor probably he was a who sang tenor and fancied himself in of clothes and spoke of the business proposition that ever came down the in a panic she peered at him no this was no this boy with the lips and the serious eyes she rose after the service carefully taking s arm ...	42
were you a st paul the main library honest oh dear i wish i was back in the cities this is my first year of teaching and i m scared stiff i did have the best time in college and basket ball and and dancing i m simply crazy about dancing and here except when i have the in class or when i m the basket ball team on a tr...	42
and become a high class or do you think that s a kind of ambition for a fellow i was brought up on a farm and then round with i don t know what do you think says you re awfully educated i am awfully tell me have the boys made of your ambition she was seventy years old and and more than well they have at that they ve me...	42
worried kneeling frowned then noted the strength with which he swung the baby in the air may i walk along a piece with you i m tired let s rest on those ties i must be trotting back they sat on a heap of discarded railroad ties oak logs spotted with colored dry rot and marked with brown streaks where iron plates had re...	42
me what to do with the land we ve been clearing if well listen if we don t you first he looked at her reverently she could hear him saying main street i ve always wanted to know a woman who would talk to me like that her hearing was he was saying nothing of the sort he was saying why aren t you happy with your husban...	42
court at the edge of town he was happy in being for the first time part of through the week heard how select an attendance there was to be growled that he didn t care to go had he any objections to her playing with no sure not she needed the exercise main street went to the match early the court was in a meadow out on ...	42
his chin and gravely stated struck me the grass was looking kind of brown in patches didn t know but what i d give it a and while harry agreed that this was an excellent idea made friendly noises and behind the gilt screen of an affectionate smile watched s face iv she wanted to see she wanted some one to play with th...	42
harry s that s all ri t now elizabeth may doll himself up too much but he s smart and don t you forget it i was asking round trying to find out where this is and if he didn t tell me what s the matter with his talking so polite hell s bells harry no harm in being polite there s some regular that are just as polite as w...	42
tuesday ive got to have one more before i m arrested let s get up a down the lake for this afternoon won t you come mrs and the doctor wants to go he s a but he s lively i don t think the doctor can go he said something about having to make a country call this afternoon but i d love to that s who can we get mrs might ...	42
brown and no i can t be a any more too old ik am i old am i faded and why you re the youngest your eyes are like a girl s they re so well i mean like you believed everything even if you do teach me i feel a thousand years older than you instead of maybe a year younger four or five years younger an your eyes are so in...	42
of things she wished to say to him high improving things she began to admit that she was lonely without him then she was afraid it was at the church supper a week after the that she saw him again she had gone with and aunt to the supper which was spread on and supported tables in the church as helping to fill coffee cu...	42
comes from she s staying with mary saw him being to the guest from she saw him strolling with she burst out to mrs and seem to have quite a crush on each other mrs glanced at her curiously before she yes don t they i m mad to talk this way worried main street she had regained a feeling of social virtue by telling how d...	42
i certainly do she crept back to her room a small figure in white i can t face will down demand the right he d be obstinate and i can t even go off and earn my living again out of the habit of it he s driving me i m afraid of what he s driving me to afraid that man in there in stale air my husband could any ceremony m...	42
seen but mrs was she was walking past and in the light from the corner arc lamp she quickly the porch the windows drop ed the curtain stood movement and reflection without reasoning she i will see him again soon and make him understand we must be friends but the house is so empty it echoes so ii had seemed nervous and ...	42
is and his thoughts never from the path of and if i gave him up to you at least youve got to appreciate we danced together and laughed so and i gave him up but this is my affair i m not i see the whole thing as he does because of all i ve told you maybe it s to bare my heart this way but i do it for him for him and yo...	42
as a rival to but that she would not consider she saw slowly walking past the house as mrs had once walked past she met mrs in uncle s store and before that alert stare forgot her determination to be rude and was cordial t main street she was sure that all the men on the street even and sam at her in an interested ful...	42
said that he didn t remember where he had got it mrs implied that had given it to him herself insisted that he had stolen it from a farmer s overcoat which mrs raged was obviously a lie he had become drunk had driven him home deposited him and on the porch never before had her boy been shrieked mrs when she owned well...	42
told professor too being and he s a righteous man not going on the sabbath like the school board members and the professor as much as admitted he was su of the woman himself n was less shocked and much less frightened than and more articulate in his description of mrs when she had gone to and after a rather improbable...	42
touched two drops of the stuff do you suppose god is me for even wanting wine my dear mrs s god may be main street s god but all the courageous intelligent people are fighting him though he us danced again with the young farmer she forgot while she was talking with a girl who had taken the university agricultural cour...	42
s one of the things she was hired for sam sounded stubborn do you realize that this isn t just a matter of a job and and firing that it s actually sending a splendid girl out with a stain on her giving all the other in the world a chance at her that s what will happen if you discharge her sam looked at his wife scratch...	42
me seriously my dear boy if i took you seriously i don t want us to be hurt more than more than we will be tell me the poem i ve never had a poem written about me i it isn t really a poem it s just some words that i love because it seems to me they catch what you are of course probably they won t seem so to anybody el...	42
a scolding but only an effort to command his attention so that he would understand the things she had to tell him instead of interrupting her by yawning winding the clock and going up to bed she heard him coal into the furnace he came through the kitchen but before he spoke to her he did stop in the hall did wind the c...	42
some day and if i could contribute one tiny bit to his success wait wait wait now hold up you re assuming that your will make good as a matter of fact at my age he ll be running a one man tailor shop in some about the size of he will not that s what he s headed for now all right and he s or six and what s he done to ma...	42
calm in which she had hidden she crept down pe ed into the living room it was not who stood there it was a small gray bearded man in boots canvas jacket and red he at her with shrewd red eyes you de s wife yes main street i m from up by i m s father oh he was a monkey faced little man and not gentle what you done wit m...	42
told me he had been offered a lovely job in the city so sorry he s gone he would have been valuable if we d tried to start the dramatic association again still i wouldn t be here for the association myself because will is all in from work and i m thinking of taking him to you know the coast so well tell me would you...	42
ventured along the road the rain was turning to snow o main street the air was stealthily cold beneath an inch of water was a of ice so that as they wavered with their suit cases they slid and almost fell the wet snow their gloves water their ankles they ed inch by inch for three blocks in front of harry s sighed we be...	42
sam all out for the weather the two men shook hands a dozen times and in the western fashion well well well well you old hell hound you old devil how are you an old horse thief maybe it ain t good to see you again while sam nodded at her over s shoulder she was embarrassed perhaps i should never have gone away i m out ...	42
this they behind a band made up of business men and high school boys who along without or ranks or leader trying to play s funeral march a shabby group of neighbors with grave eyes stumbling through the under a solemnity of faltering music was broken his was worse the rooms over the store were silent he could not do h...	42
j hill the blue sky the green fields the harvest increasing population fair return on alien who threaten the security of our institutions the the foundation of the state e one hundred per cent and pointing with pride harry as introduced honest jim and i am proud to say my fellow citizens that in his brief stay here mr ...	42
m damned if i ll agree to all your notions but i will say i ve got to depend on you never thought of that did you in this o f to and express yourself and free love and live your own life stuff you have a right to me if you can keep me can you he moved uneasily n for a month they discussed it they hurt each other very m...	42
be eminent among these did not keep her from being proud of them from defending them in imaginary conversations with who she could hear his voice they re simply a bunch of wild round the rag and i haven t got the time to chase after a lot of these fool i m too busy putting aside a stake for our old age most of the men ...	42
to die of it will wrote me th t mr has gone away how did he get on fine fine great loss to the town there was a real public spirited fellow all right she discovered that she now had no opinions whatever about main street mr and she said will you up the town campaign harry well dropped it just temporarily but sure you...	42
showed me those places today i d already made up my mind that when i built new house we used to talk about i d fix it the way you wanted it i m pretty practical about foundations and and stuff like that but i guess i don t know a whole lot about architecture my dear it occurs to me with a sudden shock that i don t eith...	42
in building up real political power for women and you shall i be frank remember when i say you i don t mean you alone i m of thousands of women who come to washington and new york and every year dissatisfied at home and seeking a sign in the heavens women of all sorts from timid mothers of fifty in cotton gloves to gi...	42
fairer attitude toward the town i can love it now she was perhaps rather proud of herself for having acquired so much main street she awoke at three in the morning after a dream of being tortured by and the widow i ve been making the town a this is how people ke up the tradition of the perfect home town the happy boyho...	42
wares that would be sold up the and across the the rolled out in greeting a chorus cheerful as the april dawn the song of labor in a built it seemed for giants t here was nothing of the in the aspect of the man who was beginning to awaken on the sleeping porch of a d house in that district of known as j his name was ...	42
he said damn furiously he snatched up his of cream furiously he with a of the brush furiously he his plump cheeks with a safety it pulled the blade was dull he said damn oh damn it he hunted through the medicine for a packet of new blades reflecting as invariably be cheaper to buy one of these and your own blades and...	42
gave orders to clerks and a car and played occasional and was in to his bead suddenly appeared not but and you noted bis heavy blunt nose bis t and thick long upper lip his chin but with you beheld him put on the rest of bis uniform a a solid citizen the gray suit was well cut well made i n f y y it white on v of the a...	42
it a m he calls it a jacket for a monkey and you couldn t get him into one unless you bim now don t be horrid george well i don t want to be horrid but you re getting as as ever since she got out of college she s been too to live doesn t know what she wants well i know what she wants all she wants is to marry a and l...	42
irritation as he in he r a t y a t a family at and his was as m e as it he shouted at well it was the only pet name in his except the dear and hon with he recognized bis wife and he flung it at every he a cup of coffee in the b of his stomach and his soul his stomach ceased to feel as though did not belong to him but b...	42
leaving the key and having the filled and passionately of the great god they the patch on the spare inner and the lost ted observed that her friends were a scream of a bunch stuck up four his friends she indicated were disgusting imitation sports and little ng ignorant girls further it s of you to smoke and so on and ...	42
there to dinner with that gang of of and bet i make a whole lot more money some of those tin horns that spend all th got on dress suits and haven t got a decent suit of to their name hey what do you think of this mrs was strangely unmoved by the tidings from uie real estate and column of the advocate times i street j ...	42
he added an of this morning he was in front of his house the grass between the and the broad stopped his car and leaned out to shout l over and stood with one foot up on the running board fine morning said lighting his second cigar of the day yes it s a mighty fine morning said i spring coming along fast now yes it s ...	42
tain t a question of generosity hardly fact always feel i was saying to my son just the other s a fellow s duty to share the good things of this world bis neighbors and it gets my goat when a fellow gets on himself and goes around his horn merely because he s charitable the victim seemed unable to find the ri t answer...	42
the back of the office he reflected how hard it was to find who had his own faith that he was going to make there were nine members of the staff besides and his partner and father in law henry who rarely came to the office the nine were the outside a man given to and the playing of pool old mat general utility man of ...	42
p s just a hint of some we can pick for you some genuine that came in to day silver grove four room a n i g shade tree swell neighborhood handy car line oo down and balance liberal terms cheaper than a t artistic two family house all oak trim floors lovely gas log big heated all weather a bargain at over with its n...	42
a came in for a conference at eleven thirty naturally be had to offer them cigars his conscience protested why you re smoking with them but he it oh shut i m busy now of course by and by there was no by aod yet his belief that he had crushed the habit made him feel noble and very happy when he called up paul he was in...	42
too late to walk it took but little more time to start his car and edge it into the traffic than it would have taken to walk the three and a half blocks to the club as he drove he glanced with the fondness of familiarity at the buildings a stranger suddenly dropped into the business of could not have told whether he wa...	42
would be a pretty good hotel if it were more exclusive the club building is nine stones high yellow brick with roof above and of huge columns below the with its thick pillars of stone its pointed and a brown glazed tile floor like baked bread crust is a combination of and the members rush into the as thou they were and...	42
s that eh i guess that ll about you george i i sou t for amiable in answer he stopped stared at the door paul was coming in cried see you later boys and hastened across the he was just then neither the sulky child of the sleep ing porch the domestic tyrant of the breakfast table the money of the conference nor the go...	42
tail end she began to push right through it with her sir how dare you manner honestly sometimes when i look at her and see how she s always so made up and of perfume and ng for trouble and kind of always i tell i m a lady damn why i want to kill her well she through the crowd me after her feeling good and ashamed til...	42
half an hour after the time at which bad sternly told miss he would be back paul sighed look here old man t to talked about way i did rats old man it lets off steam oh i after all noon at the conventional stuff i m conventional enough to be ashamed of ing my life by out with my fool troubles old paul your nerves are ki...	42
get more work out of em that way but this lack of appreciation hurt him and he turned on look here let s get this clear you ve got an idea somehow that it s you that do all the selling e d that stuff where d you think you d be if it wasn t f capital yoa and our lists of o les and all tbe prospects we find for all you ...	42
fee his lunch with paul and the merits of the new cigar lighter he was moved to a sort o thinking about buying a new car don t well get hm till next year but still we might l the older daughter cried oh if you do why don t you get a that would be perfectly a closed car is so much more than an open one well now i don t ...	42
a good deal better if you took business and learned how to write an ad or letters that would pull but there it is and there s no talk argument or discussion about it trouble with you ted is you always want to do something different if you re going to law school and you i never had a chance to but see that you why wan...	42
physician and the third that miss j l recently a per in a store is now getting ten real dollars a day teaching our system of breathing and mental control ted had collected fifty or sixty from annual reference books from sunday school fiction magazines and of discussion one benefactor implored don t be a be more popula...	42

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