440 Emma's Pick - "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin
The History of Literature
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Little Missus Somers
"Little missus sommers is hanging on. The needs of the present absorbed her every faculty," he writes. "A vision of the future like some dim gaunt monster sometimes appalled her, but luckily, to morrow never comes." We have life shrunken down to the size of a little missus somers, a mouse trying to survive,. That's the next word.
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