Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (snow like ashes series txt) 📕

up there’n that one kitchen. In the summertime, on pleasant days, they move Mattie into the parlour, or out in the dooryard, and that makes it easier⁠ ⁠… but winters there’s the fires to be thought of; and there ain’t a dime to spare up at the Fromes’.”

Mrs. Hale drew a deep breath, as though her memory were eased of its long burden, and she had no more to say; but suddenly an impulse of complete avowal seized her.

She took off her spectacles again, leaned toward me across the bead-work table-cover, and went on with lowered voice: “There was one day, about a week after the accident, when they all thought Mattie couldn’t live. Well, I say it’s a pity she did. I said it right out to our minister once, and he was shocked at me. Only he wasn’t with me that morning when she first came to⁠ ⁠… And I say, if she’d ha’ died, Ethan might ha’ lived; and the way they are now, I don’t see’s there’s much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard; ’cept that down there they’re all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues.”

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Ethan Frome
was published in 1911 by
Edith Wharton.

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