A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES

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Mrs. Shortley waited until the car was out of sight and then she made her way circuitously to the mulberry tree and stood about ten feet behind the two Negroes, one an old man holding a bucket half full of calf feed and the other a yellowish boy with a short woodchuck-like head pushed into a rounded felt hat.†

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He had a small still back in the farthest reaches of the place, on Mrs. McIntyre's land to be sure, but on land that she only owned and did not cultivate, on idle land that was not doing anybody any good.†

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If anybody desecrates the temple of God, God will bring him to ruin and if you laugh, He may strike you thisaway.†

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Mr. Head was trying to detach Nelson's fingers from the flesh in the back of his legs.†

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The kiss, which had more pressure than feeling behind it, produced that extra surge of adrenalin in the girl that enables one to carry a packed trunk out of a burning house, but in her, the power went at once to the brain.†

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He justified what he was going to do on the grounds that it is sometimes necessary to teach a child a lesson he wont forget, particularly when the child is always reasserting his position with some new impudence.†

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These words had been underlined with a blue pencil and they worked on Mrs. Hopewell like some evil incantation in gibberish.†

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She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.†

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The child crashed through the woods, making the fallen leaves sound ominous under her feet.†

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Mrs. Pritchard came over immediately after dinner and said, "Well, you want to know where they are now?" and smiled in an omniscient rewarded way.†

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There had not been any perceptible change in him for the last five years, but she had the sense that she might be cheated out of her triumph because she so often was.†

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Her prayers, when she remembered to say them, were usually perfunctory but sometimes when she had done something wrong or heard music or lost something, or sometimes for no reason at all, she would be moved to fervor and would think of Christ on the long journey to Calvary, crushed three times under the rough cross.†

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When Gobblehook first come here, you recollect how he shook their hands, like he didn't know the difference, like he might have been as black as them, but when it come to finding out Sulk was taking turkeys, he gone on and told her.†

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She scrutinized a chair across the room and then headed for it, putting her feet carefully one before the other.†

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She began to understand that she had a moral obligation to fire the Pole and that she was shirking it because she found it hard to do.†

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The graduates had to walk three blocks in the hot sun in their black wool robes and as she plodded stolidly along she thought that if anyone considered this academic procession something impressive to behold, they need only wait until they saw that old General in his courageous gray and that clean young Boy Scout stoutly wheeling his chair across the stage with the sunlight catching the sword.†

3 uses

Their stern faces didn't brighten any but they seemed to become less taut, as if some great need had been partly satisfied.†

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The white water tower was glazed pink and the grass was an unnatural green as if it were turning to glass.†

3 uses

The grandmother was curled up under the dashboard, hoping she was injured so that Bailey's wrath would not come down on her all at once.†