They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. Longfellow and Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes used to read here. Let's go in. Brian nudged the gir...
They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Longfellow and Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes used to read here. Let's go in." Brian nudged the g...
The dancing began. Along with ancient percussion instruments that crackled and rattled, rasped and banged, the St. Francis Indians had French bells, whose clear chimes rang, and even a bugle, whose no...
It was darker in the tower than any place Devnee had ever been. The dark had textures, some velvet, some satin. The dark shifted positions.The dark continued to breathe. The breath of the tower lifted...
The only good thing about this rough land was firewood. No human had ever gathered a fallen branch here. So they could stay warm, but they had nothing to cook over the flames. It seemed to Eben the In...
The rock-hard wetness of her heavy leather shoes had frozen her toes and blistered her heels. But now her feet were cozy inside the soft moccasins. She felt guilty about the others, still suffering, a...
They crossed field after field, the Indians constantly demanding more speed. Mercy did not know why the Indians were in such a hurry. They had killed anybody who could chase them.
They stayed in St. Francis for several days.Mercy was careful not to be around Ebenezer Sheldon again, and careful not to examine the reasons why. Minutes before the Kahnawake Indians stepped into the...
They marched.Ask your Indian his name, Mercy said softly to Eben. They like that.So Eben patted his chest and said, Eben. Then he touched his Indian’s arm and said, Who are you?Thorakwaneken.Eben said...
The girl who had been Mercy Carter stood for a long time watching the canoes disappear down the St. Lawrence. She had waved after Daniel, had been too crushed to wave after Sarah and Eben, and never t...
They marched until the captives could not take another step. Eben dragged Eliza half the way and Sarah dragged her the rest. Mercy and Joseph took turns hauling Ruth. That night they slept like rocks,...
She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.
I must remember that. Things become what you expect them to become. But I am granite. Nothing can shatter me.
Wanted is a good action book
It's been one nightmare after another, Christina thought. Pretty soon I won't be able to keep track of them all.
What capacity the Indians had not to worry. In Deerfield, all had been worry. Worry about the Lord, worry about sin. Worry about today, worry about tomorrow. Worry about crops, worry about children.Bu...
Girl! English, eh? What is your name? Indians stole you, eh? I’ll send news to your people.His excellent speech meant that he did a lot of trading with the English. It meant, Mercy prayed, that he lik...
She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.
Summer. That long lovely world of slow days and late nights, warm air and friendly sun.
Lord, it’s only been six months since the last time I was a total jerk, thought Reeve. Am I going to be a total jerk again?
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