The World We Live In

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Louis Bromfield. The World We Live In
The World We Live In
Table of Contents
THE POND
DEATH IN MONTE CARLO
THE OLD HOUSE
TRUE LOVE
THE MAN WHO WAS IN LOVE WITH DEATH
DAUGHTERS OF MARS
THE GREAT FAÇADE
"UP FERGUSON WAY"
THOU SHALT NOT COVET[1]
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Louis Bromfield
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The whole crowd was filled with the kind of mystical awe and excitement which touches dry-country people at the sight of running water, for water is a source of life and ties all living things together. Only one man among them all was disgruntled and that was Peterson himself. The new spring had wasted all his good land and all the money he had spent clearing and draining the pond. He wouldn't try it again. It wasn't any good fighting a spring.
A week later came Tom's letter saying that when he returned he would take his mother and Sally and the baby away from that dry, flat country now that there wasn't any more pond. Reading it, Annie Peterson paused and looked up at Sally, saying, "He must know about the pond coming back by now. He must have got my radiogram by now. He's sure to know about it."
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