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I heard the dripping clearly, and I heard Hans swallow. I heard the water and the whiskey fall. I listened to the frost on the window melt to the sill and drop into the sink. Hans poured whiskey into his glass. I looked past Hans, and Pa was watching from the doorway. His nose and eyes were red, his feet in red slippers.
What's this about the Pedersen kid? he said.
Ma stood behind him with a mop.
— Dec 28, 2025 08:29AM
What's this about the Pedersen kid? he said.
Ma stood behind him with a mop.
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(...) Shut in my room as I so often am now, with my wife's eyes fastened to the other side of the door like blemishes in the wood, I try to analyze my feelings. I lay them out one by one like fortune's cards or clothes for journeying, and when I see them clearly, then I know the time is only days before I shall squeeze through the back screen of the Mean's house and be inside.
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(...) The wintertime had finally got them all, and I really did hope that the kid was as warm as I was now, warm inside and out, burning up, inside and out, with joy.
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Then Pa took the gun away and put it in his pocket. He had his shotgun hanging easily over his left arm, but he slapped me, and I bit my tongue. Pa was spitting, I turned and ran down the path we'd come, putting one arm over my face to ease the stinging.
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