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From In the Miro District & Other Stories, by Peter Taylor

DESCRIBED

"She described what she had seen so graphically I have ever afterward imagined that I actually did look into the room with her. As she opened the door she beheld Lila stark naked except for her hat and shoes and just picking herself up -- herself and her handbag -- from where she had fallen, in the center of her large room. She had plainly been preparing to go downstairs and then go out on the streets of Nashville just as she was."

From The Captain's Son

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From In the Tennessee Country, by Peter Taylor

CLEAR

"It seemed clear to me, as such things are clear to children of an even mildly perceptive nature, that neither of those ladies had any marked fondness for children. Neither had had children of her own, and they were not women of remarkable imagination."

From Part One, page 49

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From In the Miro District, by Peter Taylor

CIVIL WAR HISTORY

"My father, who read Civil War history, would, in my presence, try to draw the old man out on the subject, asking him about Forrest's strategy or whether or not the War might have been won if Jeff Davis had paid more attention to the 'Western Theatre.'  And all Grandfather Manley would say was: 'I don't know about any of that.  I don't know what it matters.'"

From In the Miro District