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Excerpt from Break O'day: And Other Stories
Ofi' cacklin' with them 01' moss backs, an' don't never pay no 'tention, an' me a-callin' ye, an' ye a-standin' like ye were rooted in the graoun', an' deef Sarah Liz had once upon a time been pretty, Davy told her so, and he thought so still. She had now a hatchet face; a high, Roman nose, with the skin drawn tightly over the bridge; rather good eyes, a thin mouth, poor teeth, and her hair, which she wore in a tight knot high up on the back of her head, was streaked with gray. Davy would have denied the greater part of this description, but her voice was nasal and her chest was ?at, after the accepted style of physical beauty in the coast towns. Davy thought she had a beautiful figure, and when she sang Rock of Ages for him, as she did on rare occa sions, he thought her voice the.
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