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| THE Wise homestead dated back more than a century, yet it had nothing imposing about it except its site. It was a simple, glaringly white cottage. There was a center front door with two windows on each side; there was a low slant of roof, pierced by unpicturesque dormers. On the left of the house was an ell, which had formerly been used as a shoemakers shop, but now served as a kitchen. In the low attic of the ell was stored the shoemakers bench, whereon David Wises grandfather had sat for nearly eighty years of working days; after him his eldest son, Daniels father, had occupied the same hollow seat of patient toil. Daniel had sat there for twenty-odd years, then had suddenly realized both the lack of necessity and the lack of customers, since the great shoe-plant had been built down in the village. Then Daniel had retired — although he did not use that expression. Daniel said to his friends and his niece Dora that he had quit work. But he told himself, without the least bitterness, that work had quit him. |
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