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"I should like it on this side of the road," said I, "but I suppose that will have to do." "What will have to do?" asked Kyrle. "The 160 acres over there." "You unconscionable wretch! Have you evicted the poor widow, and she on her deathbed? For stiffening the neck and hardening the heart, commend me to the close-to-nature life of the farmer. I wouldn't own a farm for worlds.
"You tell me all about it," said she, smiling. The leading lady opened her lips, gulped, tried again, gulped again Pearlie Schultz shook a sympathetic head. "Ain't had a decent, close-to-nature powwow with a woman for weeks and weeks, have you?" "How did you know?" cried the leading lady. "You've got that hungry look. There was a lady drummer here last winter, and she had the same expression.
The pith of the writer's observations was restored to his mind in this form: "If I were to marry again it would be to a Latin woman French, Italian, even Spanish a close-to-nature woman born and bred in one of the Mediterranean countries. Not a blue-blood, for that has to do with decadence, but a woman of the people. They are passionate but pure, as Poe would say.
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