Fred S. Lincoln

Name: An Indiana Girl — Chapter 8
Author: Fred S. Lincoln

An Indiana Girl — Chapter 8 (1901)

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“An Indiana Girl — Chapter 8”, published in 1901, is a work by Fred S. Lincoln. It explores elements such as Virgie, Kent and Harvey.

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 8 (1901)

“ Kent watched her grief with a sense of satisfaction. It tempered some his own disappointment at the first, but, as his humiliation grew, just so much did his anger increase until he ceased to give her sorrow a place in his reasoning, and with a quick resolution he left the room without further word for her.
Virgie watched him leave with mingled feelings of sorrow, anger and perplexity. She felt that she was in some way responsible for the outcome of the affair, and yet—"Had I but known" she kept repeating to herself. The sense of her own innocence aided her to excuse herself. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 8 (1901)

“ You do know—you must know, that there are better things than these, and out in the world is where they live and feel and enact them. Oh! Virgie, there is where life is worth while," and he let his thoughts carry him back to the environment that prompted his words.
Virgie watched him intently, waiting for more until she saw he was not to continue, then she too slipped off to the things she knew to those of the outer world, using Harvey in the very situation her mind conceived, and surrounding him with a visionary world of her own conception. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 8 (1901)

“ When Kent, in boyhood, wavered in his first purpose, he doubtless found some difficulty to explain the weakening, but, with the practice of years, his reasoning became ingenious, and at times when he brought this faculty to bear upon some newly-conceived desire his arguments were so strong as to awaken his own sympathy, and his heart would grow tender under the fancied abuse of his circumstances. With the ability to arouse almost to the point of tears his own sympathies for himself, it was not surprising that Virgie should follow his seemingly sincere reasoning. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 8 (1901)

“ When Harvey had gone the men stood just outside the fence and talked of him. Virgie went through the gate and leaned against the long chain that served to pull it shut, and there waited for him to come into view for the last time on the brink of a far-away hill. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 8 (1901)

“ That is all they do do—is work—manual work, but it is brains—brains—brains, I tell you, that count in the doing of things. What is there here to hold interest? What is there of man-made art, or of letters, or of science, or study? No friendly pitting of brains against brains. Just as Harvey implied, we are early risers that we may be long workers. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 8 (1901)

“ Brandt replied, taken out of his good humor, "but the outward resemblance is wonderful nevertheless. I never saw anything so striking!"
"More's the pity that it could not have struck in," Kent replied, musingly. Then went on with a livelier interest in his remarks: "Did you ever observe the interest with which likenesses are discussed—the wonderment with which people take it, and all that?"
"Yes," Brandt assented, not grasping the point, but contented to wait the continuance. ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 8 (1901)

“ But we never think or study."
"Mr. Harvey was only joking," she replied resentfully, and yet without the knowing why. She could understand but a portion of his reasoning, and that understanding awakened only antagonism in her breast, but his talk of the world of letters and man-made art was of things outside her narrow life, and she felt incompetent to debate upon them, though in the antagonism he had awakened she sought for reasoning to place against his own, and when the thought occurred to her she continued:
"Of books I know but little, and of man-made art, as you term it, I know less ”

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Fred S. Lincoln, An Indiana Girl — Chapter 8 (1901)

“ Are we to stand still there and make of nature a means for a bare work-a-day existence? Do you suppose God gave us these things that we might simply grub potatoes and raise corn for food and seed, then more food and more seed again as the years go by? ”

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