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Excerpt from The Hands of Esau
Yet Walton took the second, longer way home, partly because the road twisted and curved past white clapboard houses across whose fresh green lawns the wind-tossed feathery branches made Swooping, winking patterns of light and shadow. The late spring sun buttered the willows; a small brook sparkled cold beside the road. Poking its nose between the weathered bars of a split rail fence, a Guernsey raised its vacantly contemplative gaze to the passing car. Here, then, in pristine tranquillity (once the day's bulldozers and dump trucks had departed), stood the antique Connecticut village elsewhere mostly overrun with the fungoid growths of suburban life. Yet today, for Walton, there was a reason beyond the Obvious contrast between the two roads for choosing the longer and slower route. He found it difficult to define this reason. To be sure, there was the news he brought. But, since it was both good and startling news, why not hasten home the faster with it? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
