Family Secrets (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Family Secrets

That is how we came to live for a time on a little farm on the edge of a manufacturing town. From the first we were looked upon by our struggling neighbors as persons roll ing in wealth, very foolish, but rather kind hearted. Our kindred and former associates regarded us as lost among the submerged tenth, and out of the abundance of their pity sent us innumerable alleviations, including, at times, the alleviation of their presence. And this last is the one thing we could not have dispensed with. Without that compau ionship, our souls would have been ground into what? The sort of pasty, clayey mass that seemed, sometimes, to constitute the innermost essence of our neighbors, as if creation were proceeding backward and they were returning to the dust of the earth.

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