30,000 On the Hoof
“"Sons, we'll never finish this corral," he said, loud and clear. "We leave for town at once... George, get out your car. Luce, you and Bab pack pronto. Abe, you and Grant rustle with the wagon." Grant ran off with thudding boots. But Abe had not heard. He fixed a strained, soft gaze from his wonderful grey eyes upon Barbara. She saw only him.
"Bab, will you--marry me--at once?" he asked trenchantly.
"Oh--yes--Abe!" she cried. A radiant transfixed face attested to joy that overcame grief. Abe to...ok her hand and put an arm around her. They forgot the others. Lucinda walked behind, leaving Logan by his unfinished stone corral.
Lucinda's perceptions magnified to startling clear and vivid reactions.
She saw that a profound and tremendous excitement had seized upon her family, stultifying, inhibiting, blinding them to the incredible and insupportable truth. Her husband, after thirty years of the poverty and toil of a galley-slave, saw suddenly the grand rainbow of his dreams looming before him in an arch of gold.MoreLess
"Bab, will you--marry me--at once?" he asked trenchantly.
"Oh--yes--Abe!" she cried. A radiant transfixed face attested to joy that overcame grief. Abe to...ok her hand and put an arm around her. They forgot the others. Lucinda walked behind, leaving Logan by his unfinished stone corral.
Lucinda's perceptions magnified to startling clear and vivid reactions.
She saw that a profound and tremendous excitement had seized upon her family, stultifying, inhibiting, blinding them to the incredible and insupportable truth. Her husband, after thirty years of the poverty and toil of a galley-slave, saw suddenly the grand rainbow of his dreams looming before him in an arch of gold.MoreLess
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