The Power and the Glory by Cooke

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Mandy Ann, she wouldn't lend us a thing," Bud began in an aggrieved tone.†

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Johnnie responded with alacrity, not aware of having either risen or fallen in her companion's estimation.†

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So the thin, graying ringlets were loosened around the meagre forehead, and indeed Mandy's appearance was considerably ameliorated.†

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She was struggling blindly under the weight of all her little world's disapprobation.†

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Johnnie moved to her quickly, putting a hand on her shoulder, remembering with swift compunction that the poor woman's burdens were trebled since Laurella lay ill, and Pap gave up so much of his time to hanging anxiously about his young wife.†

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Perhaps Gray himself was there; and the Scotchman cursed his own dilatoriness in waiting till darkness had covered the earth before setting afoot inquiries.†

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He was still grinning fatuously.†

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"Hit was me," harangued Pap Himes doggedly.†

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His grumpy silence of other days, his sardonic humour, gave place to hypochondriac complainings and outbursts of fierce temper.†

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The explanation of how the girl came to be riding in his car that Sunday morning was neither as full nor as penitent as Miss Lydia could have wished; yet it did recognize the impropriety of the act, and was, in so far, satisfactory.†

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Miss Lydia did not invite the young men employed about the mill, not having as yet undertaken their uplifting; and feeling quite inadequate to cope with the relations between them and the mill girls, which would be something vital and genuine, and as such, quite foreign—if not inimical—to her enterprise.†

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The word seems unduly fiery when one remembers the smiling, insouciant manner of his divergences from the conventional type; yet he was inveterately himself, and not some schoolmaster's or tailor's or barber's version of Gray Stoddard; and in this, though Johnnie did not know it, lay the strength of his charm for her.†

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Those among whom she had been bred, laconically called the colour red; but in fact it was only too deep a gold to be quite yellow.†

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The bleak pathos of her situation came home to her, and tears of rare self-pity filled her eyes.†

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I told them the girl had had every attention, and that she died of pernicious anaemia.†

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To give it a chance—to lend it stimulus—that's all a friend can do.†

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The very word mine suggests to them tapping the vast treasure-house of the world, and drawing an unlimited share—wealth lavish, prodigal, intemperate.†

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Lydia Sessions had got her neophites safely launched, and they were making a more or less tempestuous progress across the floor.†

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For example, here you are, one of the richest young fellows of my acquaintance, living along very contentedly where every tenet you profess to hold is daily outraged.†