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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE AWAKENING OF ARCHIMEDES Mary E. Hansell EUPHEMIA was a burler and sat all day long at a table, beside the big, blonde Sophie Schleyhahan, picking knots out of the interminable rolls of cloth, that she could hear clacking and slamming into being in the weave room across the hall. She had been burling for five years. For five years she had been in her seat at seven A. M., stopping an hour at noon to swallow her meagre lunch and listen to the silly chatter of the two-score girls and men, who ate from their hands, out of tin pails and newspapers, and drank, every one of them, from the same old, battered tin dipper. For five years Euphemia had jumped when the whistle blew for six o'clock, huddled on her shabby, gray cloak, and pushed and jostled her way with the rest to the sidewalk, where the men and girls paired off and whooped along on their devious homeward ways. All but Euphemia. There never was any mate waiting to pair with Euphemia. Men and boys never gave her even a look. But she was used to it, so it did not bother her at all. She had a round, gray-grimy face, ash-colored hair, a nondescript nose and a pair of vague-looking pale eyes, so she was no beauty. She was twenty-eight and had never had a lover. Sophie Schleyhahan had eleven rings on her fingers?all of them engagement rings. You're a chump, Sophie was saying. Here I trun down ten fellas?all but Pete Laskodi. I got all 'leven rings yet. This here world's no 'count 'lessen folks loves. I don't know what makes me work five years at the same table 'longside such a greenhorn. But, in her secret heart, Sophie knew that her big blondness showed off to great advantage beside poor little Euphemia's grayness. Euphemia pondered: This world's no 'count 'lessen folks loves. Love? She m...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217082334 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217082335 |
| Weight | 1.22 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.84 In |
| List Price | $39.34 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 378 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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