Old Wives for New
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ISBN13: 9780548559536
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OLD WIVES FOR NEW, A NOVEL -- CONTENTS CHAPTER CONTENTS XX1.-A FRIGHTFUL MAN . . C . XXT.-FOR NORMAS SAKE . - . XXI1.I.-MR. BLAGDEN BESTIRS HIMSELF . XIV.-AND MAKES RAPID PROGRESS V.-BUT XXV1.-THE CHARLEY INTERVENES AGNES-FLEURY CORSET . . XXVI1.-MR. BLAGDENS BAD QUARTER HOUR XXVII1.-MY REPUTATION MUST BE SAVED . . . XXIX.JESSIE AND FLORENCE . . . . XXX.THE Sfrod BURSTS . . . XXXI.LMh. BLAGDEN PLAYS TRUMPS . XXXII.-4 CEST LA VIE . . . XXXII1.- IOVE IN TIGHT SHOES . a XXXIV.--SOPHY STARTS AFRESH . . XXXV.LTHE WILD BIRDS CAGE OPEN . XXXVI.-VILA Grvw THE CLEW . . . XXXVII.-LcDO YOU NO LONGER CARE PAGE . 304 ., 316 . . 325 . . 3344 ., 344 . 357 . . 371 ., 381 . . 398 . 410 . 427 . 441 . . 448 . . 457 . . 468 . 475 . . 486 OLD WIVES FOR NEW PROLOGUE AUGUST shone hot and clear upon the hills of south- ern Indiana. The grain had been cut, and quail were gleaning in the stubble, with a pause now and then to whistle from the gray zigzag fence. But the timothy was still standing, waist deep the full-blown blossoms of clover, white and pink, were scenting the air and down where the now shallow creek bustled along, over and among the stones of its rocky bed, the cornstalks were rustling like so many ladies in stiff green Sunday silk. There was a path through the great hillside meadow. It began at the barnyard, where the thrashing machine was making the sweat pour from a score of workers, to trickle and glisten upon their sun-scorched faces and bared, hairy chests. It clove the sea of gold-tinted grass straight to an island where a clump of pear trees reveled in the western sun thence it wound down the slope to emerge into the road along the creek bottom. On that midway island, in the shade of thepear trees, sprawled in graceful idleness a boy of seventeen, like a young corn and wine god. His eyes were full of dreams upon his handsome features lay a faint smile of content that it was summer and the free open air, with youth rollicking through his veins, and all the world before him in the glory of its veil of illusion and hope. His carelessly roving glance spied and paused upon a pale- blue sunbonnet far away, down toward the creek fence. The little bonnet, so blue, so airily light, suggested a quaint boat adrift upon that bright bronze sea its oc- cupant was a small sweet face, like a flower afloat in an azure shell. In this boy, just then somewhat tardily awakening to the sense of sex, all faces feminine aroused vague confused minglings of wonder and awe and longing- now an impetuous impulse to push through the veil of the temples divine mystery, now a timid and even fear- ful shrinking. But he was a reader and dreamer, this boy with the quick, blue-gray eyes and the tawny skin and the splendid shock of auburn hair thus, no sooner would he look at a woman than his glance would turn impatiently away he had compared her with some composite dream-woman, evolved from his picturings of the women who lived for him in history and in ro- mance-Cleopatra and Aspasia, Theodora and a boys version of Messalina the two Catherines, she whom Florence gave to France, and she who set upon her own head the crown of great Peters crazy, impish grandson Dickenss Agnes, and Thackerays Becky, the woman who ran away from her master in Second Judges, and the burning-eyed roadside preacher, who finally taught slow Adam Bede the meaning of love. She was tall, this composite woman of the boys dream andshe had masses of golden hair, and a white robe with a purple cord at the waist, a robe that was flow- ing yet clung to her figure. A proud, haughty woman, one he would be afraid to approach yet she would somehow hearten and compel him to-to-he did not know just what some restrained kind of worship, for he had not got so far as to venture to think of touching, of kissing her...
| ISBN-13 | 9780548559536 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0548559538 |
| Weight | 2.00 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 1.25 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $53.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 504 pages |
| Publisher | Kessinger Pub |
| Published On | 2007-09-01 |
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