Banner by the WaysideRandom house, 1947 - 442 páginas "This is a picaresque novel set pre-Civil War on the Erie Canal. Durie Edwards is a female foundling, raised as a boy in a bookshop. She falls in with traveling players, thieves, con men, disreputable women (and men), as she tries to sort out the truth from the pious lies told to her, and eventually finding love. Durie's essential innocence is used to bring out the characters of the people she meets. Life on the canal boats is, as far as I can tell, accurately presented. It's a slice of Americana."--Goodreads |
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Página 81
... mind to such confusion that he lost his queen by a heedless interposition on the seventh move , and went home in a pas- sion to have it out with his erring nephew , once more rusti- cated and paying him an unsolicited visit . Summoned ...
... mind to such confusion that he lost his queen by a heedless interposition on the seventh move , and went home in a pas- sion to have it out with his erring nephew , once more rusti- cated and paying him an unsolicited visit . Summoned ...
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... mind . But there's many a man can't be trusted in a hay - loft that'll deal fair and square in the open , ' replied the oracular Gypsy . " Let's wait and see if we hear anything , " said Durie . So perturbed was she over the problem ...
... mind . But there's many a man can't be trusted in a hay - loft that'll deal fair and square in the open , ' replied the oracular Gypsy . " Let's wait and see if we hear anything , " said Durie . So perturbed was she over the problem ...
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... mind and demeanor . " " What ails my demeanor ? " " Nothing that is not permissible to a spinster still young ( Durie winced ) . But as the head of my household .. " He left that in the air . · A spirit of exasperated and outrageous ...
... mind and demeanor . " " What ails my demeanor ? " " Nothing that is not permissible to a spinster still young ( Durie winced ) . But as the head of my household .. " He left that in the air . · A spirit of exasperated and outrageous ...
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