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Sister Carrie

CHAPTER X
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Its endless buildings look gray, its sky and its street assume a somber hue; the scattered, leafless trees and wind-blown dust and paper but add to the general solemnity of color.

There seems to be something in the chill breezes which scurry through the long, narrow thoroughfares productive of rueful thoughts.

Not poets alone, nor artist, nor that superior order of mind which arrogates to itself all refinement, feel this, but dogs and all men.

These feels as much as the poet, though they have not the same power of expression.

The sparrow upon the wire, the cat in the doorway, the dry horse tugging his weary load, feel the long, keen breaths of winter.


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