It was on the first warm evening in early June that Miss Flora Blaisdell crossed the commonand turned down the street that led to her brother James's home.The common marked the center of Hillerton. Its spacious green lawns and elm-shadedwalks were the pride of the town. There was a trellised band-stand for summer concerts, and a tiny pond that accommodated a few boats in summer and a limited number of skatersin winter. Perhaps, most important of all, the common divided the plebeian East Side fromthe more pretentious West. ...
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It was on the first warm evening in early June that Miss Flora Blaisdell crossed the commonand turned down the street that led to her brother James's home.The common marked the center of Hillerton. Its spacious green lawns and elm-shadedwalks were the pride of the town. There was a trellised band-stand for summer concerts, and a tiny pond that accommodated a few boats in summer and a limited number of skatersin winter. Perhaps, most important of all, the common divided the plebeian East Side fromthe more pretentious West. James Blaisdell lived on the West Side. His wife said thateverybody did who WAS anybody. They had lately moved there, and were, indeed, barelysettled.Miss Blaisdell did dressmaking. Her home was a shabby little rented cottage on the EastSide. She was a thin-faced little woman with an anxious frown and near-sighted, peeringeyes that seemed always to be looking for wrinkles. She peered now at the houses as shepassed slowly down the street. She had been only twice to her brother's new home, and shewas not sure that she would recognize it, in spite of the fact that the street was still alightwith the last rays of the setting sun. Suddenly across her worried face flashed a relievedsmile."Well, if you ain't all here out on the piazza!" she exclaimed, turning, in at the walk leadingup to one of the ornate little houses. "My, ain't this grand!""Oh, yes, it's grand, all right," nodded the tired-looking man in the big chair, removing hisfeet from the railing. He was in his shirt-sleeves, and was smoking a pipe. The droop of histhin mustache matched the droop of his thin shoulders-and both indefinably butunmistakably spelled disillusion and discouragement. "It's grand, but I think it's toogrand-for us. However, daughter says the best is none too good-in Hillerton. Eh, Bess?"Bessie, the pretty, sixteen-year-old daughter of the family, only shrugged her shoulders alittle petulantly. It was Harriet, the wife, who spoke-a large, florid woman with a shortupper lip, and a bewilderment of bepuffed light hair. She was already on her feet, pushing achair toward her sister-in-law.
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