Word: pervus
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...earn her living, Selina goes out to teach school at an "incredibly Dutch settlement" in the suburbs of Chicago. It is called High Prairie; its inhabitants are truck farmers; it is dreary enough to make Gopher Prairie look like a corner at Oxford Circus. While there she marries Pervus Dejong, impecunious farmer. Immediately she finds herself being dragged down to the level of High Prairie life...
...course Pervus would not understand this. So she keeps her idea a secret. And then, when Dirk is aged ten, Pervus dies...
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