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By Sinclair Lewis
To James Branch Cabell and Joseph Hergesheimer
Contents
CHAPTER I. I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV. I
CHAPTER V. I
CHAPTER VI. I
CHAPTER VII. I
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI. I
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV. SHE was marching home
CHAPTER XV. THAT December she was in love with her husband
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII. I
CHAPTER XVIII. I
CHAPTER XIX. I
CHAPTER XX. I
CHAPTER XXI. I
CHAPTER XXII. I
CHAPTER XXIII. I
CHAPTER XXIV. I
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII. I
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX. SHE had walked up the railroad track with Hugh, this Sunday afternoon
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI. THEIR night came unheralded
CHAPTER XXXII. I
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII. I
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CHAPTER XXXIX
This is America—a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves.
The town is, in our tale, called "Gopher Prairie, Minnesota." But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in the Carolina hills.
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She was jarred out of this serious sweetness when Marbury bounced over to them and with horrible publicity yammered, "Say, what do you two think you're doing? Telling fortunes or making love? Let me warn you that the doc is a frisky bacheldore, Carol. Come on now, folks, shake a leg. Let's have some stunts or a dance or something."
She did not have another word with Dr. Kennicott until their parting:
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