[The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter]@TWC D-Link bookThe Harvester CHAPTER V 35/39
"I hate it! There is something wrong with the whole world when a woman having a face full of purity, intellect, and refinement of extreme type glances around her like a hunted thing; when her appearance seems to indicate that she has starved her body to clothe it.
I know what is in your mind, Doc, but if I were you I wouldn't put it into words, and I wouldn't even THINK it.
Has it been your experience in this world that women not fit to know skimp their bodies to cover them? Does a girl of light character and little brain have the hardihood to advance a foot covered with a broken shoe? If I could tell you that she rode in a Pullman, and wore exquisite clothing, you would be doing something.
The other side of the picture shuts you up like a clam, and makes you appear shocked.
Let me tell you this: No other woman I ever saw anywhere on God's footstool had a face of more delicate refinement, eyes of purer intelligence.
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