This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...her always keen tongue was sharper. It is entirely doubtful if after she went to live over 'Gene Delareaux' shop, a single of these former friends and acquaintances sought her out there, and it is less probable that she would have received them had they done so. And this would be for their sakes, so Lavinia ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...her always keen tongue was sharper. It is entirely doubtful if after she went to live over 'Gene Delareaux' shop, a single of these former friends and acquaintances sought her out there, and it is less probable that she would have received them had they done so. And this would be for their sakes, so Lavinia would have explained, saying that she had accommodated herself to her condition whereas her friends would have suffered embarrassment. Rumor had it on those occasions when her now more rarely mentioned name came up that she no longer had even the partial services of a maid, as she did for a time after she left the boarding-house. Hearsay having it that she prepared her own meals, a five-cent soup-bone bubbling in a stew-pan on a hob hooked upon the bars of her open grate, while she drew her tea in an earthen pot, --a kettle sharing the hob with the stew-pan, --pouring the bubbling water with nicety onto the pinch of copper-green leaves, her part of the south being reared to revere Young Hyson and Gunpowder. But of these rumored things no one was entirely sure because no one really had penetrated into this her last retirement. She came less regularly to church, too, of late; old Scipio had developed what he and his race in his region call tissic, and the rest of the world calls asthma. And about this time one of his ancient horses died and he did away with his hack, appearing in a new capacity with his one horse, driving a dray. This was the winter that 'Gene Delareaux, the barber, died--the winter that Lavinia herself was fifty-nine. She had been ill of the prevailing influenza herself, and obliged to have in a young colored girl to nurse her and look after her, by name Halcyon Kice, a granddaughter of a former Inskip house-servant. When a...
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