Eugene was a curiosity to the laborers because his spirit was too high and his eye too flashing to look like one of them.
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A quiet house gives way to hard labor and the small humiliations that come with it.
Book 2, Chapter 20 begins in Mrs. Hibberdell's house, where the rooms are quiet, the books are in place, and the piano sits untouched. Eugene is received with little ceremony and settled in at once. The talk stays on art, books, and the terms of a comfortable life. Mrs.
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