"THE SONG OF THE LARK" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cather Willa Sibert)

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This edition was prepared by at University of Nebraska at Omaha,
by Professors Judith Boss and Marvin Peterson; two versions were
preprared, one by typing the other by scanning and reconciled to
create the following edition. Notes on the original edition and
on the corrections and changes made have been placed at the end.




THE SONG OF THE LARK
(1915 edition)
by
WILLA CATHER



CONTENTS

PART I. FRIENDS OF CHILDHOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. THE SONG OF THE LARK . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
III. STUPID FACES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
IV. THE ANCIENT PEOPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
V. DOCTOR ARCHIE'S VENTURE . . . . . . . . . . . 343
VI. KRONBORG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
EPILOGUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

THE SONG OF THE LARK

PART I

FRIENDS OF CHILDHOOD

I


Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a
game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two travel-
ing men who happened to be staying overnight in Moon-
stone. His offices were in the Duke Block, over the drug
store. Larry, the doctor's man, had lit the overhead light
in the waiting-room and the double student's lamp on the
desk in the study. The isinglass sides of the hard-coal
burner were aglow, and the air in the study was so hot that