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There was still ice on the inside of the windowpanes in the morning. 'You don't get what I mean. But now and then he provided his sagging spirits with an ether frolic. 'Only good things,' Candy told him.

was a boy, he had that kind of bravery that's really special—no one could make him just go along with what was goin' on. 'A _what_ wheel?' Branches asked. It made a little sense, and a little sense was sense enough fen Curly Day—and more sense than Curly saw in most things. Grogan had never gone to school, was actually illiterate, was incapable of reading even a newspaper to herself—and was, therefore, in Melony's control.