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“Hypocrisy wears hard on a man who at heart isn’t that way.”

Honesty Hypocrisy

Book:As for Me and My House

Source: As for Me and My House

“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high tiny perch, afraid to move lest it topple into the wind.”

Despair Depression Isolation Canada Frustration Frustrated Small Town Prairie Thegreatdepression

Book:As for Me and My House

Source: As for Me and My House

“Sorry I didn’t do better,” he said. “I’ll have to come back another year and have another lesson.” I clenched my hands and clung hard to this promise that I knew he couldn’t keep. I wanted to rebel against what was happening, against the clumsiness and crudity of life, but instead I stood quiet a moment, almost passive, then wheeled away and carried his cornet to the buggy. (Cornet at Night)”

Music Farming Life And Art

Book:The Lamp at Noon

Source: The Lamp at Noon

“What exactly she was thinking I never knew. Perhaps of the crop and the whole day’s stoking lost. Perhaps of the stranger who had come with his cornet for a day, and then as meaninglessly gone again. For she had been listening too, and she may have understood. A harvest, however lean, is certain every year; but a cornet at night is golden only once. (Cornet at Night)”

Music Farming Life And Art

Book:The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories

Source: The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories

“Ross’s style is always beautifully matched to his material – spare, lean, honest, no gimmicks, and yet in its very simplicity setting up continuing echoes of the mind. (Margaret Laurence's Afterword)”

Style Afterword

Book:The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories

Source: The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories