9781443230773

The Tinder-Box

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9781443230773

Paperback|9781443230773


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Excerpt: ...I'll write you all about it, Jane, in a special delivery letter. Jasper whipped Petunia with great apparent severity day before yesterday, and we have been having the most heavenly waffles and broiled chicken ever since. I dis 159 missed Jasper for doing it, but Petunia came into my room and cried about it a half-hour, so I had to go out where he was rubbing the silver and forgive him and hire him over. "When a woman gits her mouth stuck out at a man and the world in general three days hand running they ain't nothing to cure it but a stick," he answered with lofty scorn. "Yes'm, dat's so," answered Petunia. "I never come outen a spell so easy before." And her yellow face had a pink glow of happiness all over it as she smiled lovably on the black brute. I went off into a corner and sat down for a quiet hour to think. Nobody in the world knows everything. "Supper's on the table," Jasper announced, after having seen Mr. Haley go down the front walk to-night. Jasper has such great respect for the cloth that never in the world would he have asked Mr. Haley in to supper without having at least a day 160 to prepare for him. Any of my other friends he would have asked, regardless of whether or not I wanted them. I somehow didn't feel that I could eat alone to-night, but it was too late to go for Sallie or Cousin Jasmine, and besides it is weak-minded to feel that way. Why shouldn't I want to eat by myself? This is a great big house for just one woman, and I don't see why I have to be that one I never was intended to be single. I seem to even think double. Way down in me there is a place that all my life I have been laying things aside in to tell some day to somebody that will understand. I don't remember a single one of them now, but when the time comes somebody is going to ask me a question very softly and it is going to be the key that will unlock the treasures of all my life, and he will take them out one by one, and look at them and love them and...

ISBN-13

9781443230773

ISBN-10

1443230774

Weight

0.32 Pounds

Dimensions

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 In

List Price

$19.99

Format

Paperback

Pages

90 pages

Publisher

Published On

2010-03-01



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