Paxton Pride
“The discovery there was more to living than a turn of a phrase, a beautiful coiffure or an elegant pose designed to show off a pretty profile filled her with awe. She was useful! Men depended on her! The very idea that work was not slavery came as a profound and delightful shock. Here was knowledge her mother would never possess, never comprehend. More exciting was the feeling she had wakened from a deep and befuddled sleep to her true role in life, and she accepted the multiple challenges of t...hat role with a relish, reveled in the pride of a thousand daily accomplishments, large and small. She was up at the cold crack of dawn. First light saw the men fed and on their way. Alone in the house she started the daily chores. She prepared bread for later in the day, sewed, cleaned, went over Maruja’s instructions for the spring garden and, finding the seeds in neatly arranged packages in the dead woman’s quarters, laid out the garden and planted. She made time to accompany Ted, still on the mend, to the sun-warmed hills where he continued her lessons in the lore of the land.MoreLess
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