Excerpts from the Book 'The Ice Palace':

... window Sally Carrol Happer rested her nineteen-year-old chin on a fifty-two-year-old sill and watched Clark Darrow's ancient Ford turn the corner. The ...
... population idled casually across the streets and a drove of low-moaning oxen were being urged along in front of a placid street-car even the shops seemed ...
... ever could have, but tied down here I'd get restless. I'd feel I was???wastin' myself. There's two sides to me, you see. There's the sleepy old side ...
... and ripple the fluffy curls of her bobbed hair. They were in the country now, hurrying between tangled growths of bright-green coppice and grass and tall ...
... brim of her floppidy hat. Let's go down there! She was pointing to a flat stretch on the other side of the hill where along the green turf were ...
... things, and I've always grown up with that dream. It was so easy because it was all dead and there weren't any disillusions comin' to me. I've tried ...
... streets???the city. She stood for a dazed moment in the frosty station before she saw three fur-bundled figures descending upon her. There ...
... was a rambling frame house set on a white lap of snow, and there she met a big, gray-haired man of whom she approved, and a lady who was ...
... I don't know what people expect, or anythin'. You'll have to tell me, honey. I'll tell you, he said softly, if you'll just tell me you're glad to ...
... on the subject of Sally Carrol's eyes and, how they had allured him ever since she entered the room, went into a violent convulsion when he found ...
... their own, and there's been a gradual mingling. There're probably not half a dozen here to-night, but???we've had four Swedish governors. Am I boring ...
... furs she put in a morning tobogganing on the country-club hill even tried skiing, to sail through the air for a glorious moment and then land in a tangled ...
... your own face is almost as red as that already! Everybody's healthy here. We're out in the cold as soon as we're old enough to walk. Wonderful climate! She ...
... she suddenly threw her arms round him. Oh, Harry, she cried, her eyes brimming with tears let's get married next week. I'm afraid of having fusses ...
... had passed, and of the life there the long winter through???the ceaseless glare through the windows, the crust forming on the soft drifts of snow, ...
... the evening's oppression lifted. Harry was right???it was beautiful and her gaze travelled the smooth surface of the walls, the blocks for which had ...
... before they turn the lights off! They all rose and started toward the chute???Harry and Sally Carrol in the lead, her little mitten buried in ...
... Retracing her steps she turned another corner, this time following a wide passage. It was like the green lane between the parted water ...
... had known she would be, with a young, white brow, and wide welcoming eyes, and a hoop-skirt of some soft material that was quite comforting to rest ...
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