Word: irenee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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You Will Not Soon Forget John, Julia, Lily, Irene
Lily, sister of love, rosy, full-limbed but of infinitely more grace than the women of Rubens, had returned to the town in Ohio to bury her mother. The mother had died as bitter protest against the smoke and soot which factories shot upon her gardened mansion. Out of the...
By the same token, Irene despised the flesh. Her father's memory was an abomination-not less so since her sister was every inch his daughter. She made her prayers with the passion wherewith they loved.
The Significance. That Man is at once tragic and comic, sublime and ignoble, vastly individual yet universally interesting, are maxims of life, and stock for novelists. This book is least concerned with the first given maxim; it would be a greater work if it dealt more with it. It reveals...
"I name this child Irene Hedley. I hope she will show love and affection in return for parental care. I also hope she will be a credit to the revolutionary movement, to which I now dedicate her."