Once he hit a root too close to the stump and the ax bounced out of his hand and nearly hit the woman on the foot. Augustus didn't have time to reply, for his horse suddenly began to buck. I know I did, son, Augustus said. She was going East to school and then planned to play the piano professionally, she said.
He sounded out of breath. Then she sat on him for several minutes, scratching at the chigger bites on his wet ankles. I told him once he could fall dead for all I care, and it wasn't three weeks before the fool just did it. Don't you know that? Yes, I know that, Augustus said, thinking there would never again be such a woman as the one who looked at him with anger in her face.
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