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When she was playing with them, and he entered, a maskfell over her face.
I had
to usecream cheques to pay off part of my loan at the bank.
Shesuffered from it
herself but resented Abes disapproval. Mary had been at the farm; the doctor
kept pony and buggy for her.
Ruth asked scornfully, Where should I put a girl?
He paced up and down on thefar side of the dining-table, Ruth standing in the
door of thekitchen.
But if a manshows he can make a success, Ill help him all I
can. And Germans have beenlooking the district over, from the reserve down
south. But Ruth wasconsciously isolating herself, making that a point of pride
whichhad been a grievance. Cant you see that I need time, time, time? Abe
veered to face her, stung to the quick.
But when Nicoll spokeas he had done,
Abe felt something uncanny in that landscape. You may think I have no right to
interfere. Not a soul had been visible about the place.
But when Nicoll spokeas
he had done, Abe felt something uncanny in that landscape. I had to usecream
cheques to pay off part of my loan at the bank. You said you didnt know whatthe
work was for. Look into the bin and see how much oats is left. I have the money
to add two bedrooms to the house. Itwould be a waste of money anyway to enlarge
this shack beyondwhats absolutely necessary. An old plough horse, a dirty
blanket on his back,was grazing near the ditch. When she was playing with them,
and he entered, a maskfell over her face. ItWAS a small room for the family of
four children. As Abe entered, Mary mentioned the fact of her husbands
absence.
Its like being in prison, cast off by the world. Abe was so much
interested that he gave the man his exactlocation and asked him to call.
The
more lordly his own domain grew to be,the less in keeping was his house.
His
wifeseemed to have the gift of making herself invisible.
West of it, twenty
acres of new breaking extended to thenorth. Suppose we come from nothingand go
to nothing?
I know its hard,living that way, all by yourself.
Ordinarily two
men are kept busy stocking the sheaveswhich one binder cuts.
Plates
wereinverted on the oilcloth of the table; cups in their saucers. North of the
bridge across the ditch a house had been built, with acommodious, roofed-over
porch.
Abe began to take oats to the various stalls.
I have the money to add
two bedrooms to the house. Ive been steering others away from the place.
That
was why,when one day he was taking his dinner at the hotel at St.
Abewondered
whether Ruth would be as reticent, as loyal as Mary.
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