The Mills of the Gods (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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She was very small and very pretty, with dark, curling hair, red lips and brown eyes that snapped with resentment as she stood with clenched hands, her body tense and quivering. Above her and across the road, heavy with white dust from which the heat rose in shimmering waves, two boys and a girl, all larger and older than she, stood and called at her, making faces and snapping their teeth with their thumbnails: Piccolo megera! Brutta vipera! C attiva Rosa!

Now and then one or another would throw a hand ful of dust or a stone at her, or rather, in her dirce tion, for she stood with so brave an air and faced them so steadily undaunted they were afraid. Gradu ally their calls became less frequent, less shrill and insistent.

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