The Barrier: A Novel (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Beach, Rex

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ISBN 10: 1440099294 ISBN 13: 9781440099298

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2012

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Some of them, to this day, owed bills at Old Man Gale's, of which they dared not think; but every fall and every spring they came again and told of their dis appointment, and every time they fared back into the hills bearing another outfit, for which he rendered no account, not even when the debts grew year by year, not even to N o Creek Lee, the most unlucky of them all, who said that a curse lay on him so that when a pay-streak heard him coming it got up and moved away and hid itself.

There were some who had purposely shirked a reckon ing, in years past, but these were few, and their finish had been of a nature to discourage a similar practice on the part Of others, and of a nature, moreover, to lead good men to care for the trader and for his methods. He mixed in no man's business, he took and paid his dues unfalteringly. He spoke in a level voice, and he smiled but rarely. He gazed at a stranger once and weighed him carefully, thereafter his eyes sought the distances again, as if in search of some visitor whom he knew or hoped or feared would come. Therefore, men judged he had lived as strong men live, and were glad to call him friend.

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Flambeau, and many counted him as a friend. The latter never reasoned why, except that he had done them favors, and in theN orth that counts for much. Per haps they built likewise upon the fact that he was ever the same to all, and that, in days of plenty or in times of famine, his store was open to every man, and all received the same measure. Nor did he raise his prices when the boats were late. They recalled one bleak and blustery autumn when the steamer sank at theL ower Ramparts, taking with her all their winters food, how he eked out his scanty stock, dealing to each and every one his portion, month by month. They remembered well the bitter winter that followed, when the spectre of famine haunted their cabins, and when for endless periods they cinched their belts, and cursed and went hungry to sleep, accepting, day by day, the rations doled out to them by the grim, gray man at the log store.
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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440099294
• ISBN 13: 9781440099298
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 330