[Martin Eden by Jack London]@TWC D-Link book
Martin Eden

CHAPTER XVII
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He went to bed immediately afterward, and in the morning decided that he was greatly rested.

Joe being still absent, Martin procured a Sunday paper and lay down in a shady nook under the trees.

The morning passed, he knew not how.

He did not sleep, nobody disturbed him, and he did not finish the paper.

He came back to it in the afternoon, after dinner, and fell asleep over it.
So passed Sunday, and Monday morning he was hard at work, sorting clothes, while Joe, a towel bound tightly around his head, with groans and blasphemies, was running the washer and mixing soft-soap.
"I simply can't help it," he explained.


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