The Golden Answer (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Sylvia Chatfield Bates

9780483720923: The Golden Answer (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0483720925 ISBN 13: 9780483720923

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

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There were two ways, equal in distance, by which to come from the railroad station to the white house in the lane. Amos Fortune, on his way back and forth from his work in the city, chose - almost always - the one that took him from the patrician end of the street down the lane to his front gate, instead of the way that led past the low-lying corner with the grocery store and the saloon.

Harmony loved to swing on this front gate, which had fortunately been painted green and not white. Amos liked it better green because it frequently came into contact with Harmony's stubby little shoes, which had a habit of wearing out almost as often as the rent was due. Not but that he enjoyed buying shoes for Harmony, and also pale blue chambray dresses and workable little play clothes of stout old-blue stuffs and greens and browns and babyish white things, with plain wide hats to shade her brown curls. Old Johanna, to whom he brought these things to be made, and the saleswomen of whom he earnestly bought them, did not always approve of Harmony's clothes; but a famous artist, who saw her once on the gate, as he wholly by accident had stumbled into the wrong end of the lane and made haste to ascend, had asked to paint her. He had done so, and very kindly gave the first sketch to Amos, who hung it beside his desk in the library of the white house.

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