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Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise

CHAPTER IX
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His grammar, his untrained voice, his rough clothes, the odor of stale sweat and farm labor he exhaled, made him horrible to her--though she only vaguely knew why she felt so wretched and why her body shrank from him.
She stepped down from the sulky, almost falling in her dizziness and blindness.

Jeb touched the mare with the whip and she was alone before the house--a sweet forlorn figure, childish, utterly out of place in those surroundings.

On the threshold, in faded and patched calico, stood a tall gaunt woman with a family likeness to Jeb.

She had thin shiny black hair, a hard brown skin, high cheekbones and snapping black eyes.

When her thin lips parted she showed on the left side of the mouth three large and glittering gold teeth that in the contrast made their gray, not too clean neighbors seem white.
"Howdy!" she called in a tone of hostility.
Susan tried in vain to respond.


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