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The Courage of Marge O’Doone

CHAPTER IV
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From then on David kept him company by drinking a third cup of coffee.
When he had finished Father Roland settled back with a sigh of content, and drew a worn buckskin pouch from one of the voluminous pockets of his trousers.

Out of this he produced a black pipe and tobacco.

At the same time Thoreau was filling and lighting his own.

In his studies and late-hour work at home David himself had been a pipe smoker, but of late his pipe had been distasteful to him, and it had been many weeks since he had indulged in anything but cigars and an occasional cigarette.

He looked at the placid satisfaction in the Little Missioner's face, and saw Thoreau's head wreathed in smoke, and he felt for the first time in those weeks the return of his old desire.


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