The Indifference of JulietRichmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)
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The Indifference of Juliet
Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)
American fiction -- 19th century
"I do," she answered, still studying the plans. "I love them all--and the
old home most of all. Ever since I knew"--how had she known? they
wondered--"that a change of houses was a possible thing for us I have been
homesick in anticipation of a change I couldn't bear to think of. Yet I
wondered if we ought to go. But if you can make this of the old home----"
She lifted to her husband an enthusiastic face. His eyes met hers in a
long look in which each read deep into the mind of the other. Then Anthony
Robeson, like a man who hears precisely what he most wants to hear, turned
smiling to Cathcart.
"I think you've lost, Steve," he said.
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Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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