West of the HillMacmillan Company, 1949 - 248 страница "Here is a heart-warming novel about Maine people two generations ago. The tall, chestnut-haired girl named Molly had grown up in an atmosphere of poverty, loneliness, and fear among the fishermen who worked along the coast, shut off from the inland farms by a great forest-covered hill. "West of the Hill" meant happiness to Molly - an impossible dream. But the dream came true when she bundled up her few rags and rode off with stalwart young Brad Hartwell, fish peddler and farmer. |
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... dress showed , rustling faintly with her breath , and the short stout neck above it , and the wrinkled face in a frame of iron - gray . " Did you wish black ? ” Now Molly was truly frightened . She felt caught in a web of emptiness and ...
... dress showed , rustling faintly with her breath , and the short stout neck above it , and the wrinkled face in a frame of iron - gray . " Did you wish black ? ” Now Molly was truly frightened . She felt caught in a web of emptiness and ...
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... dress . " I will take three , " thought Molly , breathing hard , with no dig- nity in her but full of a furious determination and pride . “ And I will make it into a dress . Maybe two dresses . And I will have this baby . And he won't ...
... dress . " I will take three , " thought Molly , breathing hard , with no dig- nity in her but full of a furious determination and pride . “ And I will make it into a dress . Maybe two dresses . And I will have this baby . And he won't ...
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... dresses , and Miss Hemenway gave me the bit of lace for the yoke of one . " She did not say that Cyrena had never worn the dress with the lace at the yoke . . . that that dress was Robbie's first dress and she had put it away in a ...
... dresses , and Miss Hemenway gave me the bit of lace for the yoke of one . " She did not say that Cyrena had never worn the dress with the lace at the yoke . . . that that dress was Robbie's first dress and she had put it away in a ...
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