The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...Houghton Mifflin, 1940 - United States |
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Page 39
... Mistress twenty years ago . Mistress in a garnet velvet gown and real lace , wearing her long earrings and a garnet necklace : a vigorous young woman with chestnut hair and a high colour in her cheeks . The Master in a stock and ...
... Mistress twenty years ago . Mistress in a garnet velvet gown and real lace , wearing her long earrings and a garnet necklace : a vigorous young woman with chestnut hair and a high colour in her cheeks . The Master in a stock and ...
Page 57
... Mistress . To be sure , until lately Miss Sapphy had pampered the girl too much ; but it wasn't a Dodderidge trait to turn on anybody they had once taken a fancy to . Nancy her- self , Till knew , suspected fat Lizzie as the trouble ...
... Mistress . To be sure , until lately Miss Sapphy had pampered the girl too much ; but it wasn't a Dodderidge trait to turn on anybody they had once taken a fancy to . Nancy her- self , Till knew , suspected fat Lizzie as the trouble ...
Page 204
... mistress had once come to the Baptist church , and he did not like her arrogant man- ner , or the look of her . She had a small , hard face , white as flour . When Sapphira returned , she sent down to the mill for her husband . She was ...
... mistress had once come to the Baptist church , and he did not like her arrogant man- ner , or the look of her . She had a small , hard face , white as flour . When Sapphira returned , she sent down to the mill for her husband . She was ...
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