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Excerpt from Himself Again: A Novel
On the side Of this road stood an Old brick-and-stone farmhouse, with low outlying gables, and with a long wing, whose porch was covered with a mass Of red honey suckles. Heavy Old oak and hickory trees threw their shadows around the house, and a thick hedge of lilac and snowdrop bushes pushed far into the side Of the road, where mazes Of dark green myrtle grew. Through the Open doorway Of the wing, where bumblebees were hovering around the honeysuckle blooms, one might, that day, have seen Mrs. Amos Davis, a pretty and tired-looking lady of perhaps thirty years, who was preparing her table for the afternoon's ironing. She was standing her dishes on edge in the high, Old-fashioned blue cupboard, when, raising her eyes, she exclaimed, Mary, as sure as I live 1 A team Of horses was standing at the gate, and a high covered wagon held a man who was about to alight and two ladies, whose faces, veiled from the dust and the sun, could not be seen. They sat rather primly, as country ladies sometimes do, waiting to be welcomed before betraying the slightest disposition to descend. Mrs. Davis was not slow in going to the gate, wiping her clean hands On her green apron, as if she were mak ing a Sign Of apology and humility to persons in their Sunday clothes; and, trying to show the least wonder concerning the identity Of the callers, she said, Why, John 1 Is that you Her hesitation was a little inno cent, hypocritical trick which some Of the heartiest of ladies employ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.