The Rise of Silas Lapham - William Dean Howells - Books - INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED - 9798691845628 - January 23, 2021
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The Rise of Silas Lapham

William Dean Howells

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The Rise of Silas Lapham

Book Excerpt: ...to let her know that he sees it. Why, my mother--" he stopped. "It gives me a lump in the throat," he said apologetically, with an attempt at a laugh. Then he went on: "She was a little frail thing, not bigger than a good-sized intermediate school-girl; but she did the whole work of a family of boys, and boarded the hired men besides. She cooked, swept, washed, ironed, made and mended from daylight till dark--and from dark till daylight, I was going to say; for I don't know how she got any time for sleep. But I suppose she did. She got time to go to church, and to teach us to read the Bible, and to misunderstand it in the old way. She was GOOD. But it ain't her on her knees in church that comes back to me so much like the sight of an angel as her on her knees before me at night, washing my poor, dirty little feet, that I'd run bare in all day, and making me decent for bed. There were six of us boys; it seems to me we were all of a size; and she was just so careful with all of us. I can feel her hands on my fe...

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Released January 23, 2021
ISBN13 9798691845628
Publishers INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED
Pages 346
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 18 mm   ·   462 g
Language English  
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