Glenway Wescott

Name: The Grandmothers — 4. HIS GRANDMOTHER TOWER'S GIRLHOOD. HER SOLDIER SWEETHEART. HER MARRIAGE
Author: Glenway Wescott

The Grandmothers — 4. HIS GRANDMOTHER TOWER'S GIRLHOOD. HER SOLDIER SWEETHEART. HER MARRIAGE (1927)

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“The Grandmothers — 4. HIS GRANDMOTHER TOWER'S GIRLHOOD. HER SOLDIER SWEETHEART. HER MARRIAGE”, published in 1927, is a work by Glenway Wescott. It explores elements such as Leander, Serena and Rose.

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Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers — 4. HIS GRANDMOTHER TOWER'S GIRLHOOD. HER SOLDIER SWEETHEART. HER MARRIAGE (1927)

“ Leander had not wanted her, but she was acceptable to the Towers.
It was her duty not to let her husband see how she grieved for his brother; he could not comfort her. She did not hope to be loved, and she realized once more how rough and homely she must appear beside the memory of Serena. She continued to grow heavier; the coarse roses did not disappear from her cheeks, but came to resemble dead rose leaves, covered with a network of tiny veins.
Life was not sad, though Henry was obstinate and sad. She never understood him. Would she have understood Leander? She often found him unreasonable ”

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Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers — 4. HIS GRANDMOTHER TOWER'S GIRLHOOD. HER SOLDIER SWEETHEART. HER MARRIAGE (1927)

“ The young tree drooped with its clusters of mature berries, like drops of something suspended over their upturned faces, drops bright as blood, not human blood—the blood of angels. "It's a beauty," Leander said. Rose forgot that Hilary existed and that she existed; there were only two things in the world—the tree and Leander. ”

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Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers — 4. HIS GRANDMOTHER TOWER'S GIRLHOOD. HER SOLDIER SWEETHEART. HER MARRIAGE (1927)

“ Henry led the men with a pure voice which sounded lonely among the rest, and his lovely wife Serena led the trebles. Hilary still sang with the women—his voice, very sweet and shrill, less like a voice than an instrument—sitting beside Serena, seeming to sing only for her and Leander. Rose also sang for them. She wanted nothing in the world, neither in the wilderness she knew nor in the countries she would never know, but to be acceptable to that family, loved by Leander. ”

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Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers — 4. HIS GRANDMOTHER TOWER'S GIRLHOOD. HER SOLDIER SWEETHEART. HER MARRIAGE (1927)

“ She grew tired of the life at home. She wanted to look like a lady, like Arabella and Ursula Raeburn, like young Mrs. Henry Tower; and it was difficult to bathe and dress amid the gibes of her brothers, under Tom Gore's agitated eyes. She thought that short skirts made her resemble a boy who is too fat; so a yellow taffeta dress was made for her, with a hoop and seven rows of ruffles. She forced Adelaide to pierce her ears with a darning-needle, and her grandmother gave her a pair of gold earrings she had brought from Kentucky. ”

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Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers — 4. HIS GRANDMOTHER TOWER'S GIRLHOOD. HER SOLDIER SWEETHEART. HER MARRIAGE (1927)

“ Rose grew fond of Oliver, the slight child with languorous eyes, and came to love Serena more than anyone else in the world but Leander. Serena was never in good health. Rose did all the work, trying to make the men they hired care for Henry's farm as well as he would have done, a difficult task for the daughter of shiftless farmers. She took a man's responsibilities, and learned the cost of a man's gentleness. ”

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Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers — 4. HIS GRANDMOTHER TOWER'S GIRLHOOD. HER SOLDIER SWEETHEART. HER MARRIAGE (1927)

“ Serena, who had been lying in an apathy which no voice could penetrate, wept when she heard his voice, and cried out, "No, it is not Henry!"
They left Adelaide in the sick room and walked toward the hills. Finally Rose paused and said (for the first time to him and the only time in her life) : "I love you. Are we going to get married?" ”

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Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers — 4. HIS GRANDMOTHER TOWER'S GIRLHOOD. HER SOLDIER SWEETHEART. HER MARRIAGE (1927)

“ Their grandmother, whom they called "the old woman," fingered her corn-cob pipe in one corner; she was stone deaf and hated the men. Their mother grumbled, but indulged them as if they were sickly children. She said, "The world is a man's world; women might as well make up their minds to it."
Rose and her sister Adelaide walked four miles through the woods to attend school, stoning the bushes into which a fox or a badger had vanished, terrified of stags. ”

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Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers — 4. HIS GRANDMOTHER TOWER'S GIRLHOOD. HER SOLDIER SWEETHEART. HER MARRIAGE (1927)

“ Often Rose walked up and down the trail, hoping to meet them by herself. One afternoon men galloped from village to village with word that the Indians in Minnesota were on the warpath, burning and killing and coming south. ”

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Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers — 4. HIS GRANDMOTHER TOWER'S GIRLHOOD. HER SOLDIER SWEETHEART. HER MARRIAGE (1927)

“ They went by night to the trees where the passenger pigeons roosted, picked them off the boughs, wrung their necks, and tied them in bunches with string. They said: "Pretty soon, smart fellows like those Towers'll spoil this country. Make a woman's country out of it, just like Kentucky. ”

Glenway Wescott

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