...
THE VALLEY OF THE MOON
JACK LONDON
BOOK 2
CHAPTER 4
Saxon had been clear-eyed all her days, though her field of vision had been
restricted. Clear-eyed, from her childhood days with the ... apiece for them. We
will consult about them. The profit will more than provide material for your own."
The more Saxon saw of Mercedes Higgins the less did she u...
...
too."
THE VALLEY OF THE MOON
JACK LONDON
BOOK 2
CHAPTER 12
A gleam of light came, when Billy got a job driving a grading team for the
contractors of the big bridge then building ... live off their fathers' money. They come to the stable in big tourin' cars an'
drove out the wagons with half the police of Oakland to help them. Say,...
... he's got to
wear the stripes for twenty years. Lucky he wasn't married. If he don't get the
THE VALLEY OF THE MOON
JACK LONDON
BOOK 2
CHAPTER 14
In the days that followed ... slugger " the fireman's voice began.
Then came the unmistakable impact of a blow; the crash of glass; a scuffle on the
back porch; and, finally, the...
... down there in a minute."
THE VALLEY OF THE MOON
JACK LONDON
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 4
After dinner there were two dances in the pavilion, and then the band led the way
to the race track for the ... over the ground and disappeared under the avalanche of
battling forms of the onlookers.
Leaving Saxon under the protection of the Irishman in an oute...
... nervous. Bert gives me the
willies the way he's always lookin' for trouble. There ain't no sense in it."
THE VALLEY OF THE MOON
JACK LONDON
BOOK 1
CHAPTER 13
"Our ... and all the rest, by the Indians.
He was an old man by then, but I guess he got his share of Indians before they got
him. Men like him always died fighting, and they too...
... been out of California, or, for that matter, had never slept a
night away from his birthtown of Oakland, was right in his judgment. She was a
THE VALLEY OF THE MOON
JACK LONDON
BOOK 2
CHAPTER ... extravagance of it had worried her in
a half-guilty way all day.
The salt chill of the air that is the blessing of all the bay cities after the sun goes
dow...
... opulence. Besides, she had mentioned the
names of other men, but not his.
THE VALLEY OF THE MOON
JACK LONDON
BOOK 2
CHAPTER 2
Despite the fastidiousness of her housekeeping, Saxon, once she ... minutiae of instruction in the art of fine
washing. Further, she was fascinated and excited by all the newness and
strangeness of the withered old woman...
... you of women's ways
with men, and of men's ways with women, the best of them and the worst of them.
Of the brute that is in all men, of the queerness of them that breaks the hearts of ... called the washing of fine linen an art. But it is not for itself alone. The
greatest of the arts is the conquering of men. Love is the sum of all the...
... the solemnity
of an oath. "Not so's you can see it. Never again for yours truly."
THE VALLEY OF THE MOON
JACK LONDON
BOOK 2
CHAPTER 5
Four eventful things happened in the ... desperately for the razor. "I've
been watching the barbers from the sidewalk. This is what they do after the lather
is on."
And thereupon she proceede...
... at his luck. And
THE VALLEY OF THE MOON
JACK LONDON
BOOK 2
CHAPTER 6
The trafficking between Saxon and Mercedes increased. The latter commanded a
ready market for all the fine work Saxon ... at the same time cool with the
coolness of content.
"In the old days the great of earth were buried with their live slaves with them. I
but take my flimsie...