Honoré Willsie

Name: Lydia of the Pines — XIX. Cap and Gown
Author: Honoré Willsie

Lydia of the Pines — XIX. Cap and Gown (1917)

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“Lydia of the Pines — XIX. Cap and Gown”, published in 1917, is a work by Honoré Willsie. It explores elements such as Lydia, Kent and Amos.

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XIX. Cap and Gown (1917)

“ Like a flash Lydia saw again long aisles of pines, smelled again the odor of the needles, heard again the murmuring call of the wind.
"Good God!" cried Amos, tossing his pipe on the table, "poverty's hounded me all my life—poverty and death. The only two people who cared about me, Patience and Levine're gone. Yet here's the chance for me to be independent. Here's a chance for me to make up for the failure I've made of life. A man with a little piece of property like this and a little bank account is somebody in the community. ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XIX. Cap and Gown (1917)

“ Lydia sprang to her feet. She was white to her lips. "Don't repeat that remark," she said in a choked voice. "What do you know about the feeling John Levine and I had for each other? He was the one friend of my life."
"Nice way you have of showing it, now he's gone," roared Amos. "Just about the way you show your affection for me. Will nothing satisfy you? Norton and I never squealed when you and Billy got our claims taken away from us. Doesn't it occur to you it's about time you sacrificed something to me!" ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XIX. Cap and Gown (1917)

“ Lydia plodded doggedly through the snow. "Of course, Kent's tending to all that, I refuse to be told the details."
"Lydia!" cried Billy again and there was such a note of pain in his voice that she turned her face to his with the same dogged look in her eyes that had been expressed in her walk.
"Why," he said, "what am I going to do without you to look up to—to live up to? You can't mean it!"
"But I do mean it. I fought and fought and I have for years till I'm sick of it. Now, at least, there'll be no more poverty for Dad to complain of." ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XIX. Cap and Gown (1917)

“ Are all the men in America money crazy like the men in Lake City?"
"Sure," replied Kent cheerfully. "Oh, Lydia, honey, don't be so hard! Look at your poor old Dad! Think what it would mean to him. Don't be so doggone sanctimonious!"
Instead of looking at her father, Lydia looked at Kent, long and wistfully. How dear he was to her! What an inalienable part of her life he was! What was the use of always struggling against her heart. Kent smiled into her face. Her lips trembled and she turned to look at Amos. ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XIX. Cap and Gown (1917)

“ Amos looked down at his daughter grimly. The Daniel Webster picture in its black carved frame was just behind him and the somber vision in the living and the pictured eyes was identical.
"Can't you see what a fool you are!" he shouted. "The land can never go back to the Indians. John took good care of that. If you don't take it, somebody else will. Can't you see!"
Lydia's lips tightened. "That's not the point. It's the way we're getting it and the way John Levine got it." ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XIX. Cap and Gown (1917)

“ I don't want to teach. I do love farming. I don't see why a woman can't learn dairy work as well as a man."
"You're the only girl doing it, aren't you?"
"Yes, but what difference does that make? The boys are fine to me."
"I don't know that that surprises me any," Willis smiled down at the pink profile at his shoulder. "Well, and then what?"
"Then a dairy farm, if Dad and I can rent the makings of one."
"But you have plenty of land, haven't you? Levine left all his property to you, I understand."
Lydia looked quickly up into Willis' face. "If you were I would you keep that property?" ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XIX. Cap and Gown (1917)

“ Oh, how can you be willing to take land stolen in the first place and then the theft legalized by the Whiskey Trust! Why, you don't want me even to speak to Dave Marshall now, yet you're willing to take this dirty favor from him."
"We won't keep the land. We'll sell it and have the money to clear up the mortgage on the cottage. I'd take a favor from the devil in hell to get this place clear," replied Amos slowly. He took a turn up and down the room. "I can't see what's happened to children nowadays. In my day we obeyed. Lydia, I'm not going to discuss this any longer. ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XIX. Cap and Gown (1917)

“ The three hundred and twenty acres on the reservation was under a cloud. Part of it was land he had gotten from Charlie's sister. All of it he had obtained from alleged full bloods.
"Then," said Lydia, in a relieved manner, "I really haven't any Indian lands at all!"
"Oh, yes, you have," replied Amos. "The court will take the oath of a number of people that the land was obtained from mixed bloods. Dave Marshall has fixed that up."
"Dave Marshall!" gasped Lydia.
Amos nodded. "He's strong with the Whiskey Trust. And the Whiskey Trust is extra strong wherever there's a reservation." ”

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Honoré Willsie, Lydia of the Pines — XIX. Cap and Gown (1917)

“ He was sitting before the base burner with her father and jumped up to help her take her coat off. He greeted her soberly.
"Your father's been telling me about your discussion, Lyd," he said. "You can't mean to stick by your decision!" ”

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