Sections 1 “Is this the end? 2 Can you see how foggy the day is? 3 My story is very simple,—Only what I remember of the life of one of these men,—a… 4 They went on, the mulatto inclining for a moment to show fight, and drag the woman Wolfe off… 5 “Hugh?” 6 The road leading to the mills had been quarried from the solid rock, which rose abrupt and… 7 Miserable enough she looked, lying there on the ashes like a limp, dirty rag,—yet not an… 8 If you could go into this mill where Deborah lay, and drag out from the hearts of these men… 9 I want you to come down and look at this Wolfe, standing there among the lowest of his kind,… 10 Wolfe, while Deborah watched him, dug into the furnace of melting iron with his pole, dully… 11 “I believe that is a pretty fair estimate, Captain.” 12 Never! 13 “Not badly done,” 14 “I tell you, there's something wrong that no talk of 'Liberte' or 'Egalite' will do away. 15 Kirby flushed angrily. 16 “Will you send the coach-driver to this side of the mills?” 17 Then flashed before his vivid poetic sense the man who had left him,—the pure face, the… 18 Deborah followed him into the inner room. 19 “Has it come to this?” 20 Then he saw himself as he might be, strong, helpful, kindly. 21 Shall I go over the history of the hours of that night? 22 Yet, is there no meaning in this perpetually covered truth? 23 “When he was first caught,” 24 “Tryin' to get out, old boy?” 25 How clear the light fell on that stall in front of the market! 26 “Hur'll never see Deb again!” 27 Deborah, crouching near by on the other side of the wall, heard no noise. 28 “Hur knows best,” 29 There was outcry and crowd enough in the cell the next day. 30 “When thee comes back,”
Start Learning A narrator leads readers into a smoke-choked mill town to tell of Hugh Wolfe, a furnace-tender whose secret korl carvings expose the hunger trapped in industrial workers' lives.
Industrial mill town Hugh Wolfe, furnace-tender The korl woman statue Class and hunger Narrator's direct address
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