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The Plum Tree

By David Graham Phillips

2020-04-16 21:12:48

"We can hold out six months longer, - at least six months." My mother's tone made the six months stretch encouragingly into six long years. I see her now, vividly as if it were only yesterday. We were at our scant breakfast, I as blue as was ever ev ... Read more
"We can hold out six months longer, - at least six months." My mother's tone made the six months stretch encouragingly into six long years. I see her now, vividly as if it were only yesterday. We were at our scant breakfast, I as blue as was ever even twenty-five, she brave and confident. And hers was no mere pretense to reassure me, no cheerless optimism of ignorance, but the through-and-through courage and strength of those who flinch for no bogey that life or death can conjure. Her tone lifted me; I glanced at her, and what shone from her eyes set me on my feet, face to the foe.  Less

Book Details

File size446.174 KB
Print pages402
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2010-09-06
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0758278432
David Graham Phillips (October 31, 1867 – January 24, 1911) was an American novelist and journalist of the muckraker tradition. Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana. After graduating from high scho...

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