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Updated: May 14, 2025
One can never tell, never trust anybody what with one thing and another and the Alsatian border so close and those German-Swiss always to be suspected and often impossible to distinguish with their pig-eyes and bushy flat-backed heads from the genuine Boche. ... Would Miss Erith like to have our little dinner served out here in the garden?" Miss Erith was delightfully sure she would.
Sally was never jealous, but Martie burned with a fierce young jealousy of all life: of Rose, with her dainty frocks and her rich friends, her curly hair and her violin; of Florence Frost's riding horse; of Ida Parker's glib French; of her own brother, Leonard Monroe, with his male independence; of the bare-armed women who leaped on the big, flat-backed horses in the circus; of the very Portuguese children who rode home asleep of a summer afternoon, in fragrant loads of alfalfa.
He rode, she observed, like a centaur flat-backed, firm in the saddle with the easy negligence of a plainsman. He turned as he started, and waved a hand debonairly at her. "If I have any luck, I'll bring back one of the Roaring Fork bunch with me a present for a good girl, Miss Melissy." She turned on her heel and went inside. Anger pulsed fiercely through her.
Sitting so close to my ear, when he shouted into it it was exactly as though some one had hit me, and hurt just as much. He is a huge rawboned man, with the flat-backed head and protruding ears so many Germans have. What is it that is left out of their heads, I wonder?
They were mostly English classics, whose names I knew but which I had never read, and they were all in a little flat-backed series at a shilling apiece. I arranged them on top of a chest of drawers, but I kept the Pilgrim's Progress beside my bed, for that was one of my working tools and I had got to get it by heart.
She was always there, sitting upright and flat-backed beside her work-basket, frowning a little, not because she was cross, but because she was rather near-sighted. She had come when Ruth was quite a baby, after Mrs.
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