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Updated: May 9, 2025
The looped-back tarpaulin framed the long vista of my road with the downs beyond; and I lay in the cool dark, caressed by the fresh breeze in its thoroughfare, soothed by the strong monotonous tramp of the great grey team and the music of the jangling harness. Jem walked at the leaders' heads; it is his rule when the waggon is empty, a rule no "company" will make him break.
Truth blinding, white-hot truth burst in upon him. "Mother," he said and he stood up, suddenly robust, virile, alert "mother, let's go home." Mechanically she began to unpin the looped-back skirt. "When?" "Now." "But, Hosey! Pinky this flat until June " "Now! Unless you want to stay. Unless you like it here in this this make-believe, double-barrelled, duplex do-funny of a studio thing.
Truth blinding, white-hot truth burst in upon him. "Mother," he said and he stood up, suddenly robust, virile, alert "mother, let's go home." Mechanically she began to unpin the looped-back skirt. "When?" "Now." "But, Hosey! Pinky this flat until June " "Now! Unless you want to stay. Unless you like it here in this this make-believe, double-barreled, duplex do-funny of a studio thing.
Being lighted with shaded lamps that shed their soft radiance only where it was wanted, portions of the long room remained in shadow, so Grace and I, sitting near one window, could look out between the looped-back curtains across the prairie. High over the sweep of dimly glimmering snow hung a vault of fathomless indigo.
The fourth side of the apartment was broken in outline at one end by the door through which they had entered, and at the other by a broad, square opening, hung with looped-back curtains of a thin silken stuff. Between the two apertures rose against the wall what Theron took at first glance to be an altar.
Anyway, I shoved her into the bay window back o' the casket, an' there I left her in behind a looped-back Nottingham settin' in Jennie's shroud an' didn't either of 'em know it. "It was a queer chapter for Doctor June to read, some said but I guess holy things often is queer, only we're better cut out to see queer than holy.
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