Excerpt: ...had to drink too: she put the stuff to her lips, pulled a wry face and pushed the glass away. The boys dipped and soaked the bread in their coffee; and the wives started talking about their young days and about clothes and the old ways and the fine weather and the fruit-crop. Mother did nothing but cut fresh slices of bread-and-butter, which were snatched away and gobbled up on every side. "Eat away!" said father. The hostess of "The Four Winds" had been unable to take her eyes off Horieneke all through mass. ...
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Excerpt: ...had to drink too: she put the stuff to her lips, pulled a wry face and pushed the glass away. The boys dipped and soaked the bread in their coffee; and the wives started talking about their young days and about clothes and the old ways and the fine weather and the fruit-crop. Mother did nothing but cut fresh slices of bread-and-butter, which were snatched away and gobbled up on every side. "Eat away!" said father. The hostess of "The Four Winds" had been unable to take her eyes off Horieneke all through mass. "Damned pretty, like a little angel!" said Stiene Sagaer. "And a curly head of hair like a ball of gold! It made one's mouth water! And that wreath!" squealed the farmer's wife from the Rent Farm. "Mam'selle Julie had a hand in it." "And such pretty manners! Well, dear, Our Lord will be mighty pleased with you." "And how nicely she read that piece!" said Stiene. "My blood crept when I heard it. Look here, Wanne Vandoorn was sitting beside me; and, you can take my word, the good soul couldn't control herself and we both cried till we sobbed." "I felt it too," said mother. "Such things are cruel hearing. And the priest...." "Ah, he knows how to talk, that holy man! He's a pure soul." "You'll regret it all your days, Ivo, that you weren't there to see it." Father nodded and took another slice of bread-and-butter. "It'll take me all the week to tell about it at home," said the farmer's wife. The boys sat making fun among themselves of Stiene Sagaer's crooked nose and the squeaky voice of the farmer's wife. When the wives had done eating, they stood up and went. When they had gone some little way, they turned round again and cried against the wind: "It's going to be fine to-day, Ivo!" "And warm!" piped the farmer's wife. "Beautiful weather!" They went down the sand-path, each wending her own way home. The boys were now dressed and father, stripped to the waist, went out to wash his face under the trees at the pump. His freshly-ironed white shirt was...
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