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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "For Heaven's sake, Sally, don't
say, 'Isn't it hot?' or, 'Did you ever know such weather for
April?' or, 'Doesn't it seem as if the mud was just as bad as it
used to be before we had the State Road?' again. It is hot. I never
did see such weather. The mud is worse if anything. I've said all
this several times, and if you can't think of anything more
interesting to talk about, I wish you'd keep still." Sally Gray
pushed back the lock of crinkly brown hair that was always getting
in her eyes, puckered her lips a little, and glanced at her brother
Austin without replying, but with a slight ripple of concern
disturbing her usual calm. She was plain and plump and placid, as
sweet and wholesome as clover, and as nerveless as a cow, and she
secretly envied her brother's lean, dark handsomeness; but she was
conscious of a little pang of regret that the young, eager face
beside her was already becoming furrowed with lines of discontent
and bitterness, and that the expression of the fine mouth was
rapidly growing more and more hard and sullen. Austin had been all
the way from Hamstead to White Water that day, stopping on his way
back at Wallacetown, to bring Sally, who taught school there, home
for over Sunday; his little old horse, never either strong or
swift, was tired and hot and muddy, and hung its unkempt head
dejectedly, apparently having lost all willingness to drag the
dilapidated top-buggy and its two occupants another step. Austin's
manner, Sally reflected, was not much more cheerful than that of
his horse; while hisclothes were certainly as dirty, as shabby, and
as out-of-date as the rest of his equipage.
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