Word: lamplight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exception was Carmine Guarino, nicknamed "the Toad." Like Silvio, Carmine had been born to poverty, but he had found escape along another road, by burying his nose in books until his eyes dimmed and his skin grew waxen with the pallor of lamplight. Carmine's studies brought him no money, but they helped make him a schoolmaster and a politician, full of respect for the ordered and privileged past and contempt for illiterate successes such as that of Silvio...
...inherited from his mother. There are over 300 acres of woodland, which he has left strictly alone. On a long screened-in porch facing the mountains of the Sandwich Range, he and Mrs. Cummings take their meals. There is no electricity, and at night reading is done by kerosene lamplight. For trips to the village he drives a 1929 Ford sedan, upholstered and roomy as an old-fashioned Pullman, that rides high over the rutted dirt roads...