Excerpt from One Thing Is Certain: A Novel But he would have cut down the tree, and chopped it into Splinters and fired its stump, if he had known that his Older daughter, Louellen, met Mart Bladen in the evening before lamp-lighting time under its concealing Shade, and that they sat on his excellent high snake-rail fence and dis cussed whether or not she should run away and marry him. Louellen, in her full lilac print crisply sprigged in purple, was firm and slim, her features cut with delicate precision, her eyebrows ...
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Excerpt from One Thing Is Certain: A Novel But he would have cut down the tree, and chopped it into Splinters and fired its stump, if he had known that his Older daughter, Louellen, met Mart Bladen in the evening before lamp-lighting time under its concealing Shade, and that they sat on his excellent high snake-rail fence and dis cussed whether or not she should run away and marry him. Louellen, in her full lilac print crisply sprigged in purple, was firm and slim, her features cut with delicate precision, her eyebrows mere black pencil strokes, her short full upper lip curved like one of Romney's ladies. She challenged interest, as do all people of two natures. She had moods of being cool and definite and determined, sure of herself as only utter youth and inexperience warrant. At other times her gray eyes lit with sapphire lights, her mouth curled up irresistibly and any daring foolish impulse ruled her. Under stress she was confused, child-like. To-day she was eagerly in earnest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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