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Alexandra rose and looked about A golden afterglow throbbed in the west, but the country already looked ein the herd from the other half-section Eate Fro house, on the little rise across the draw, the s The cattle lowed and bellowed In the sky the pale half-ether down the potato rows "I have to keep tellingto happen," she said softly "Since you have been here, ten years now, I have never really been lonely But I can remember what it was like before Now I shall have nobody but Eht, when the boys were called to supper, they sat down moodily They had worn their coats to town, but they ate in their striped shirts and suspenders They were grown men now, and, as Alexandra said, for the last few years they had been growing hter of the two, the quicker and o off at half-cock He had a lively blue eye, a thin, fair skin (always burned red to the neckband of his shirt in summer), stiff, yellow hair that would not lie down on his head, and a bristly little yellow row a , and his white eyebrows gave it an empty look He was a man of powerful body and unusual endurance; the sort of ine He would turn it all day, without hurrying, without slowing down But he was as indolent ofof his body His love of routine a the saardless of whether it was best or no He felt that there was a sovereign virtue in s in the hardest way If a field had once been in corn, he couldn't bear to put it into wheat He liked to begin his corn-planting at the same time every year, whether the season were backward or forward He seeularity he would clear himself of blame and reprove the weather When the wheat crop failed, he threshed the straw at a dead loss to derain there was, and thus prove his case against Providence