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"Why by marrying him, I suppose," answered Carley, as if weighing a problem. "That has been the universal feminine point of view for a good many years," replied Glenn, flourishing a flour-whitened hand. "But it never served the women of the Revolution or the pioneers. And they were the builders of the nation. It will never serve the wives of the future, if we are to survive."
Her physical reactions were dominated by it. Yet what this secret was she could only guess at. A knock sounded on the door. June brushed back a rebellious lock of hair from her eyes with the wrist above a flour-whitened hand. "Come in." A big dark man stood on the threshold. His glance swept the girl, searched the room, and came back to her. "Pete Tolliver live here?" "Yes.
There was not much to see on the ground-floor, save the whitened brick walls, a huge pillar or post in the middle, and a ladder-like flight of steps on one side, up which Uncle Richard led the way; and as Tom emerged from a trap-door, he found himself in a circular chamber, a little less than the one below, with three windows at the sides, the doorway he had seen from without, and three pairs of millstones placed horizontally, and connected by shafts with the mechanism above the cobwebby and flour-whitened ceiling.
Below him, near the bridge, smoke was curling upward from the tall chimneys of the tanneries, while farther away a great mill displayed its flour-whitened buildings among the fresh verdure of the growths that lined the waterside.
An' thet lightnin' draw can't you-all see thet's a family gift?" Euchre's narrow eyes twinkled, and he gave the dough he was rolling a slap with his flour-whitened hand. Manifestly he had proclaimed himself a champion and partner of Duane's, with all the pride an old man could feel in a young one whom he admired. "Wal," he resumed, presently, "thet's your introduction to the border, Buck.
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