The Next of Kin: Those who Wait and Wonder - Softcover

McClung, Nellie L.

 
9781506025513: The Next of Kin: Those who Wait and Wonder

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Inhaltsangabe

It was a bleak day in November, with a thick, gray sky, and a great, noisy, blustering wind that had a knack of facing you, no matter which way you were going; a wind that would be in ill-favor anywhere, but in northern Alberta, where the wind is not due to blow at all, it was what the really polite people call "impossible." Those who were not so polite called it something quite different, but the meaning is the same. There are districts, not so very far from us, where the wind blows so constantly that the people grow accustomed to it; they depend on it; some say they like it; and when by a rare chance it goes down for a few hours, they become nervous, panicky, and apprehensive, always listening, expecting something to happen. But we of the windless North, with our sunlit spaces, our quiet days and nights, grow peevish, petulant, and full of grouch when the wind blows. We will stand anything but that. We resent wind; it is not in the bond; we will have none of it!

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About the Author

Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) was the author of four novels and several volumes of short stories and non-fiction. McClung was one of five women responsible for the 1929 Persons Case that established women as "persons" according to Canadian law.

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