Sophie Kerr

Name: The Reason
Author: Sophie Kerr

The Reason (1916)

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“The Reason”, published in 1916, is a work by Sophie Kerr. It explores elements such as Peter, Janey and judge.

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Sophie Kerr, The Reason (1916)

“ I get so low in my mind I'm almost bedsick. Abner's all I've got, you know, Peter." She turned and looked at the judge with such love and devotion in her eyes that the Honorable Peter turned his gaze away.
"So you see, Peter," said the judge, slowly, "why I have decided to devote my life to writing and give up my active practice and my lecture courses."
"But-you know, Abner," cried Janey, "I don't want you to. I'd ruther die than be a stumbling-block to you." The little woman's eyes filled with fond tears. She turned to Peter impulsively. "He's the best husband in the world, Peter," she said. ”

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Sophie Kerr, The Reason (1916)

“ The judge had risen and was walking back and forth about the room. "And you know, too, Peter," he said, "that all the time I was working through my law course and waiting for cases, Janey, with all her other work, took in sewing and did baking for the neighbors. It was she who paid the rent and bought the food we ate. Well, there, there—we're becoming emotional. Come, Peter, try one of these famous doughnuts. You never ate anything half so good in all your life, I'll warrant."
"They're simply bully!" declared the Honorable Peter, following the judge's lead. ”

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Sophie Kerr, The Reason (1916)

“ Our involved party systems will grow in unwieldy corruption, and politics will be more than ever a dirty business instead of a privilege of citizenship." His voice rose to a climax of earnestness.
The judge smiled very tenderly. "You ought to be a Secretary of State, Peter," he said.
Peter drew back in embarrassment. "Oh, come," he said, "I'm not a politician, not a statesman. It's a statesman we want, Ab—and you're the man. You've made a great name for yourself by your books and your law-school work and the big cases you've handled before the Supreme Court. ”

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Sophie Kerr, The Reason (1916)

“ Now, of course, we're looking about for another Secretary of State. Not that there aren't plenty of people who think they could hold down the job. Do you know, Ab, the reason I eat and sleep so much is because at meal-times and when I'm in bed office-seekers can't get at me. This flesh of mine is a tribute to the persistence and omnipresence of the American office-seeker."
The two men laughed. Then the Honorable Peter leaned forward and put his hand gently on his old friend's knee. "Ab," he asked, "how would you like to be Secretary of State?" ”

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Sophie Kerr, The Reason (1916)

“ A light flared up in the hall, and presently the door was opened by a somewhat untidy maid with the air of being a casual relative or friend rather than a servant.
"Come right in," she said, hospitably. "Take off your overcoat or you won't feel it when you go out. I guess you better set in the lib'ry—that's where the judge sees his friends mostly."
The Honorable Peter followed directions and found himself in the library—a library to dream of. Books scaled the walls from floor to ceiling, and overflowed on to the mantelpiece, hewn in Caen stone. ”

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Sophie Kerr, The Reason (1916)

“ Every one worth while comes to Washington at some time or other, and you can pick and choose. Of course, it's not like London, where everything and every one worth knowing is in a radius of a few miles, but, under this administration at least, official society has brains and culture—I hate the word, but it 'll serve—to offer. ”

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Sophie Kerr, The Reason (1916)

“ You know we married young, but all the first years, when we had such a struggle to get along, why he helped me with the housework and the childern, even with the wash, whilst he was working and studying and trying so hard to get ahead. ”

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Sophie Kerr, The Reason (1916)

“ The longest-living author of this work died in 1965, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 57 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. ”

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