Unmarked6698
- Flag inappropriate
- Show review history
A low rumble of thunder was heard in the distance and a flash of lightning made the coal-oil lamp look like a bilious spot in the room. The shower was over in a few moments and all prepared to leave the barn for the house. A whoop startled her and she turned to see a handsome boy racing up on a brown pony, also carrying a basket..
453 people found this
review helpful
kez_ h (Kez_h)
- Flag inappropriate
- Show review history
⚡ Hurry! Limited Time Offer Join Today and seize your bonus!I tried logging in using my phone number and I
was supposed to get a verification code text,but didn't
get it. I clicked resend a couple time, tried the "call
me instead" option twice but didn't get a call
either. the trouble shooting had no info on if the call
me instead fails.There was
⚡ Hurry! Limited Time Offer Register now to avail your bonus and start winning big!
658 people found this
review helpful
Conrad
Suddenly, all heads were raised and a sigh of satisfaction escaped Mrs. Wopp’s lips. Billy knew by sight the two Italians who lived there, brothers yet enemies. Each dwelt by himself in a corner of the great building.Each cultivated alone his share of the straggling vineyard on the heights above, too steep and rocky for a plough; though the lush acres on the river bottom went fallow. If either overstepped his bounds they fought. Billy had seen one of these encounters; and the fierce fire in their dark faces, the passion in the foreign words they spoke,—oaths the boy felt they must be,—sent him flying home, tinged his dreams for many a night. “Yes, long ago. And, mamma, you needn’t ask me that every morning; I’m going to remember. Truly!” he added, as he came toward her, rosy and shining, and saw her doubtful smile. “The vegetables are most weeded, too.” “Why do you think he would have whipped you?”.
298 people found this
review helpful