hat Candy would marry him, and have their baby on the same day, if she thought she could avoid telling Olive the truth. A fifteen-year-old boy doesn't want his father draped all over him, but wrestling was perfectly respectable; that was still allowed. If God was sobering in Waterville, the Draper Thanksgiving was—to Homer's surprise —a drunken occasion. A _white_ hearse! he was thinking.
selfish or spoiled way, but like a Prince of Maine, like a King of New England; Wally was just born to be in charge. Larch would have to practise. 'Stop worrying about the trees,' said Wilbur Larch. 'You've got no reason _to feel_ adopted,' his father [570] had told him.
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