The Miller of Old Church

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Doubleday, Page, 1911 - 432 sider
The miller is a self-made man and aspiring politician who loses the girl he loves in this commentary on class and gender conflicts of the early 20th century.
 

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Side 310 - ... pause he passed on, without committing himself to any definite observation; yet there seems to have been a meaning in the ceremony, for he successively repeated it in the case of every dignitary congregated at the eastern side, and finally of the ordinary members. When it came to the turn of Carbuccia, he would have given ten years of his life to have been at the Galleys rather than Calcutta, but he contrived to pull through, without, however, creating a...
Side 132 - No womanly woman cared to make a career. What the womanly woman desired was to remain an Incentive, an Ideal, an Inspiration. If the womanly woman possessed a talent, she did not use it, for this would unsex her; she sacrificed it in herself in order that she might return it to the race through her sons. Self-sacrifice, to use a worn metaphor, self-sacrifice was the breath of the nostrils of the womanly woman.
Side 71 - ... child. In Barren Ground, Dorinda's liaison was equally blighted. In The Sheltered Life there is suffering aplenty because of the promiscuity of George Birdsong. When Abel Revercomb embraces Molly Merryweather early in The Miller of Old Church, Molly is repelled. "I suppose most girls like that sort of thing, but I don't, and I shan't, if I live to be a hundred.
Side 74 - Abednego, I've bought a new canary," said Mrs. Gay. "Here, hold my satchel, Nancy, and give Patsey the wraps and umbrellas." She spoke in a sweet, helpless voice, and this helplessness was expressed in every lovely line of her figure. The most casual observer would have discerned that she dominated not by force, but by sentiment, that she had surrendered all rights in order to grasp more effectively at all privileges.
Side 412 - The relation of woman to man was dwarfed suddenly by an understanding of the relation of woman to woman. Deeper than the dependence of sex, simpler, more natural, closer to the earth, as...
Side 77 - Angela's sullen spinster sister, also, whose career as an artist had been denied her by the circumstance that " it was out of the question for a Virginia lady to go off by herself and paint perfectly nude people in a foreign city.
Side 81 - Inheritance, training, temperament, all combined to develop the racial instinct within her, yet something stronger than these — some external shaping of clay — had unfitted her for the purpose for which she was designed. And since, in the eyes of her generation, any selfexpression from a woman, which was not associated with sex, was an affront to convention, that single gift of hers was doomed to wither away in the hothouse air that surrounded her.
Side 371 - Poplar Spring. He walked rapidly, and his face wore an anxious and harassed expression, for he was making the unpleasant discovery that even stolen sweets may become cloying to a surfeited palate. His passion had run its inevitable course of desire, fulfilment, and exhaustion. So closely had it followed the changing seasons, that it seemed, in a larger and more impersonal aspect, as much a product of the soil as the flame-coloured lilies that bloomed in the Haunt's Walk.
Side 81 - ... on the andirons. It was the habit of those about her to forget her existence, except when she was needed to render service, and after more than fifty years of such omissions, she had ceased, even in her thoughts, to pass judgment upon them. In her youth she had rebelled fiercely — rebelled against nature, against the universe, against the fundamental injustice that divided her sister's lot from her own. Generations of ancestors had bred in her the belief that woman existed only to win love...
Side 193 - But surely she must have suspected " "She has never suspected anything in her life. It is a part of her sweetness, you know, that she never faces an unpleasant fact until it is literally thrust on her notice.

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