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Updated: May 27, 2025
Sylvia looked at the tall, dingy houses, the frowzy little shops, the swarms of dirty-nosed children, shrill-voiced, with matted hair, running and whooping in the street, at the slatternly women yelling unobeyed orders to them out of half-glimpsed, cheerless interiors, smelling of cabbage and dishwater.
Blindly she groped for the supporting hand of the doctor. "John," she moaned, "did you hear that? Sleeping out oh how could he?" "Very easily, I should think." Under the slight handicap of assisting the drooping lady to her chair, John Rogers looked back at Desire, standing now within the radius of the camp fire's light and once again he felt the strangeness as of some half-glimpsed prophecy.
"Yes," she answered presently. "That call is still supreme. Our Frances " She paused, but her eyes sought the half-glimpsed outlines of another cottage there beyond the hedge. "We never realized, did we?" said Allan, voicing her thought. "It came so suddenly. But we haven't lost her, after all. And there are still the others, too. And when grandchildren come "
And laughing at the broad witticisms of the niggers, or enjoying their choruses and orchestral accompaniments, one forgot just what that half-glimpsed audience consisted of; what it meant, and how it came to be here assembled.
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