Georgia Wood Pangborn

Name: Three Sisters Of The Wilderness
Author: Georgia Wood Pangborn

Three Sisters Of The Wilderness (1911)

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“Three Sisters Of The Wilderness”, published in 1911, is a work by Georgia Wood Pangborn. It explores elements such as Molly, Wilderness and violets.

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Georgia Wood Pangborn, Three Sisters Of The Wilderness (1911)

“ There were some men and women, however, who did not close their windows on the Wilderness side, and had not such a cultivated taste for sunsets that they were able to disregard the annoyances of the swamp. And they kept on listening and worrying, until they said, ‘This is unendurable! If the Wilderness is as old as the race, then it is older than it should he, and the race is too old to endure such folly any longer!’ and they went down, and drained swamps, and fought with beasts and worse, and saved little children, and let in light and air where men and women were working. ”

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Georgia Wood Pangborn, Three Sisters Of The Wilderness (1911)

“ For all odors are the words of a language, and just as violets mean girls like Molly, so the breath of poor Sidney’s card meant the dreadful hospital cleanliness of pain and death. And, more than that, to Molly’s mother it meant a man not young and enthusiastic like Sidney, but an older man, overworked and weary and saddened, with heart a little calloused by the ceaseless tapping upon it of Sorrow’s fingertips,—a soldier who every day, all his life, must go down into the field against the pale horseman, whose sword often and often must be out of its scabbard all night long. ”

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Georgia Wood Pangborn, Three Sisters Of The Wilderness (1911)

“ The people on the Hill used to have their washing done there; in fact, all the rough work of the Hill people was done there as a matter of course.
“‘Civilization,’ the Hill people said, ‘is without doubt the most important thing m the world; but naturally it takes a great deal of work to keep it up properly. That is what these Wilderness people are for. How, for instance, could we dress for dinner if nobody ironed our shirts? We work too; just as hard as they, but in a different way. We work with our heads instead of our hands—at least some of us do. ”

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Georgia Wood Pangborn, Three Sisters Of The Wilderness (1911)

“ When Sidney had consulted her about the flowers, she had said that violets would go best with Molly’s eyes. She took off the wrappings and read Sidney’s card thoughtfully; then with an odd flicker of a smile she smelt of it. Disinfectants are terribly penetrating, and if they are in constant use in your daily work you can hardly be expected to keep them out of your merely social affairs: they follow as unhappy memories do or Black Care behind the horseman. ”

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Georgia Wood Pangborn, Three Sisters Of The Wilderness (1911)

“ Molly and her mother laughed together with the disdain of the wise for a thing too foolish for serious discussion.
“And then when you came in, so wild with sudden pity for the things you had seen, I remembered poor Aunt Jenny at her prayers, and I hardly knew which would hurt me most, to see you in a coronet or a veil. But—oh, my dear—the woman’s way—the old, old woman’s way—it isn’t easy! Many, many days the burden of my life has been greater than it seemed I could bear. Do you realize that you were sick a good deal when you were a baby? ”

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Georgia Wood Pangborn, Three Sisters Of The Wilderness (1911)

“ What right has one to be happy in such a world? And there were others. A little, thin, one-legged boy,—oh, such eyes, Mother!—and a poor Italian woman whose husband had been killed,—she had a week-old baby in her shawl,—and others. How can I dance tonight? Shall one dance on graves?”
“If there were no other place to dance,” said Molly’s mother very quietly.
“There is no other place, and one should not dance at all!” said Molly wildly. “Violets, verses to my eyes, and a Mother and Daddy to run my errands and smooth off every rough corner for me—why should I have all these things? ”

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Georgia Wood Pangborn, Three Sisters Of The Wilderness (1911)

“ He called it ‘specializing.’
“‘You would do a great deal of good,’ said the Princess, taking out her embroidery again; for she never liked to be idle.
“‘I believe,’ said he, ‘that in another ten years we can rid the earth of him.’
“‘You will have to work very hard,’ said she. ”

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