Lie Down in Darkness: A NovelBobbs-Merrill, 1951 - 400 pages |
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Page 132
... leaves scuttled across the drive- way and became silent all at once , an army felled in its tracks . Noise from the radio ceased , the sleazy female voice strangled in mid - note as if it , too , had perished on the wind's last ...
... leaves scuttled across the drive- way and became silent all at once , an army felled in its tracks . Noise from the radio ceased , the sleazy female voice strangled in mid - note as if it , too , had perished on the wind's last ...
Page 195
... leaves in spring , now bare and rusty , shaking in the wind : it would be taller now , bigger , arching heavy branches over the house . She would come to the door , a slattern in rags ( Why , he wondered , did he snobbishly picture her ...
... leaves in spring , now bare and rusty , shaking in the wind : it would be taller now , bigger , arching heavy branches over the house . She would come to the door , a slattern in rags ( Why , he wondered , did he snobbishly picture her ...
Page 220
... leaves began to turn and all along the fence the mimosas bloomed ; the bumblebees still buzzed around the flowers . Each afternoon Helen would watch them walk across the lawn together very slowly , Ella carrying the pail , Maudie the ...
... leaves began to turn and all along the fence the mimosas bloomed ; the bumblebees still buzzed around the flowers . Each afternoon Helen would watch them walk across the lawn together very slowly , Ella carrying the pail , Maudie the ...
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