Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


"Same here," Billy agreed. "Though just the same I'd like most to
death to have just one go at that squarehead Hansen." He smiled
with pleasure at the thought. "Say, let's forget it all now, an'
you sing me 'Harvest Days' on that dinky what-you-may-call-it."


When she had complied, accompanying herself on the ukulele, she
suggested his weird "Cowboy's Lament." In some inexplicable way
of love, she had come to like her husband's one song. Because he
sang it, she liked its inanity and monotonousness; and most of
all, it seemed to her, she loved his hopeless and adorable
flatting of every note. She could even sing with him, flatting as
accurately and deliciously as he. Nor did she undeceive him in
his sublime faith.

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