Ragged Lady — Complete
William Dean Howells
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Description
Ragged Lady, by William Dean Howells, opens in Part One with the Landers on their first summer at Middlemount, lost on back roads in a carry-all. Mrs. Lander wants her husband to get out and ask the way to South Middlemount at a house by the pine woods, and she holds the reins to stop him driving on blind.
He jerks the reins anyway, then softens the insult by driving her up to the door so she can ask without climbing down, a favor given her age and bulk. The house they approach is raw and unfinished, banked with earth at its foundations, its boarding patchy and its front steps still just a block of wood.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | William Dean Howells |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 498 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |