Excerpt from One Thing Is Certain: A Novel
But he would have cut down the tree, and chopped it into Splinters and fired its stump, if he had known that his Older daughter, Louellen, met Mart Bladen in the evening before lamp-lighting time under its concealing Shade, and that they sat on his excellent high snake-rail fence and dis cussed whether or not she should run away and marry him.
Louellen, in her full lilac print crisply sprigged in purple, was firm and slim, her features cut with delicate precision, her eyebrows mere black pencil strokes, her short full upper lip curved like one of Romney’s ladies. She challenged interest, as do all people of two natures. She had moods of being cool and definite and determined, sure of herself as only utter youth and inexperience warrant. At other times her gray eyes lit with sapphire lights, her mouth curled up irresistibly and any daring foolish impulse ruled her. Under stress she was confused, child-like. To-day she was eagerly in earnest.
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