3 October 2023: “Mrs. Willis had lived seventeen years with Mr. Wills, and when he left her for three, those three were so much the best of her married life that she wished he never came back. And the only real trouble with Mr. Wills was that he should never have moved West. Back East I suppose they breed such men because they need them, but the really ought to keep them there” (Austin 51).
Got such a kick out of this passage from Mary Austin's story, "The Return of Mr. Wills," which I read today--along with a bunch more--while working on my latest entry.
Work Cited
Austin, Mary. Western Trails: A Collection of Short Stories. Edited by Melody Graulich, University of Nevada Press, 1987.
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