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III knew lo 10 bellna fell tip tt colre of earning her own living or f returning turning rf too r iho I 1 to ll lup an annl I 1 bet coming a Is lilt pored red and i tried apple with it I 1 black furz und unit at her tier heart like her aunts the tile ollis 1 selso shinh ruh and arid al at tile ble peake she yie did nt not hesitate hut but ahat kind of f work julie henipel demanded amt kind of work an you dot do onn on lifts that I 1 is the lie selina peakes dl oll I 1 not work ork 1 I well ell I 1 cun can tenth 1 ablat the he think I 1 learned at air 11 j is ter go IOU ou hae louse to do to floist 9 gai to normal or ti t a li 11 hi lit the tie countr dont vout before MU oll can tench teach in lit the 1 bublic schoon I 1 hea re in me stiv old cold ament he die or esen thirty or more with ith 1 to imagine linae an age beona ihen then III just te lich a country chool I 1 1 at I 1 ii if know that julle julie have hase kr arun ina it llalon havens had load nil till her tier listar stroll in ili aplina untra 4 funar rv diol school are just arithmetic und anti an I 1 gi H you IOU I 1 teaching a country Rho chool xII I 1 mie looked at bie she glass a delicate dellia tc filce the skull dinall un an I 1 exquisitely funned the chick bonea bones rather alili or perhaps they looked eo so because fit it the tile fait fact that the cea ees darls dark soft fund luminous were unusually deep set et in their eo cLete the face Insi instead tead of narrowing to a soft curve curie at tit the athin dei developed eloped unexpected in the jaw line that line itne one fine steel strong sharp and clear wa was of the stuff of which aich women w art ar made julle julie inexperienced in the art of reading the human did not decipher the th meaning of it be kellnar kell lliams nae hair mas ava thick long and fine ane to that she plied piled it easily eastly in the loops colls and knots rn lilon demand ed her noe slightly pinched at t the tile nostrils no strlla vas exquisite NN hen slip he laughed it had the trick of wrinkling nhUng just a little across the narrow balde very engaging and she he ingalf as thought a rather plain little thing i hagh she wasn gasn t hut hat the tile eyes were nere what you markel flod and remembered perhaps Ier hapa it was as this velvety softness of 0 the eyes eyel that caused one to over vier look the finn firmness nest of the lower face hen the next ten years had done their worst to her tier anil find julle julie had slid denly come upon her stepping agilely out of a truck gar gardener deneen wagon on I 1 raider avenue a tanned vien weather ther beaten toll worn isom woman a her tier aban dant hair skewered into a R knob and held by a long gray hairpin lier tier full d skirt gir grained lined ith the mud of tit tin tile wagon wheel 4 lair rf of old nde mole bools boots on her clitu feet a pro grit les tes quely battered old fill hut fiat her tier husband huband go s un on her head her arms full of ears paris of sweet corn trul and carrots and radishes rudle hes and bunches of beets a it in an n with mith bad teeth tint flat breasts a sag ging ling pocket in hl his 4 skirt even then julle julie staring had hod knon her by her eves anit and she had run to her tier in her silk suit and her tine silk shirtwaist and her hat with th thi 0 plume and had cried oh selina 11 dear my dear dearl with nith a nob fob of horror borror md fund pity my dear I 1 I 1 and had hod cairen selina carrota carrots beets corn ria and frodI radishes shea in her arms the tile vegetables Tege tables ables lay altered scattered all about them on the sidewalk side wilk in front of julle julie arnolds arnold Is treat stone house on prairie uvence but strangely enough it hid hod been bellna who had done the comforting comfortini patting joltes julies silken shoulder and saying over loser and over there therel pos jt all rl of julle julie ito it all don dont t cry crt naf bat there to cry for I 1 sh I 1 ite its all right Chap chapter teril henein lucky to 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people were ere all truck and us dutch aa as the neth til londs froin front which aich the or their fa fit lind had many ninny of them fiat hu 1 title it from front the town ton of schoorl or near it thra from the tile leishin Is out mile 41 le A ninerd I elenot it un jilt her their Ilc ollyA a rel 11 II i 1 f the quaint settlement in n arsing 4 dt tala tale I 1 I 1 turing niel inel luw lov golden orn torn nelies causti crullers crumbling oly ke kika eks trot hott file ald wild ducke ducks ldes sides of smoked beef pumpkin pice PIPS country dancea apple chec che ked fanner former arts she lie felt sorry for poor julle little is taIng on in the dull gray corn 1 of ahe last week leek la in october found her tier on the is way fly to high prairie tented 1 ie e side klaas klaus pool in the two horse waon nalon with ith which he brought his garden stuff to the market mile mille after mile of cabbage nelds fields ja jade degreen green the tile earth mile after mile of red cab cub bage huge a rich plummy burgundy veined with black between these heaps of corn were piled up sunshine against the horizon an occasional patch of woods showed the last russet and bronze of oak and maple these things selina savi with her beauty loving ee and ehe she clasped her handi hands in their black cotton cloves gloves oh mr pools pool she ithe cried mr mir pont I 1 how beautiful it biot 1 here I 1 klaas klass pool dehing his team of horse horses down the muddy halsted ro roid rold ld was nas looking straight ahead his eves fastened seemingly on an 1111 spot beav between n the off on horse horses a ea ills was fas not the kind of ot brain that acts quickly nor was silas his boda a mechanism 1 the sort hat quickly re responds jo 0 o that brain i nit silage ills ees were chins blue in a round red face that wasi isas covered cover etl with a stubble of stiff golden to liili clr allot ro unit moon of a head was rpt et low loa an I 1 ollah his preat great shoulder 0 o hat flint as an he begun to turn it no now low ly y ann at the he proe tin I 1 waited fear fearfully fulli to fedir a reak HP lie vlas turning chiq 1 head biml stilli but keeping hist hl gaze on the spot tx lit ticeen ills hi liames hf iiames trea ears I 1 klenth the head and the ees rp voled b in quit dI distinct pro rak novi w he lip f feed selina ellna elina ilni ot directly allot III pole blue ejea showed incomprehension beautiful he echor echoed wil in interrogation ant IR 1 1 bellna 1 allm arms dubbed out froin from hie tile owin things of cloak sauvol and arid grout der and were flung lilt in a gesture that embraced the landa landscape cape on which the late afternoon sun mas cutting a glow peculiar to that flint lake region all rose and golden and mist shimmering this I 1 the the cabbages cabbage ot A plow slon danl danning ng film cf of fun crept over the blue of klan pools stare this film spread almost so that it bis his broad noot nostrils tills met and his full upa up reached and agitated his massuto 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