You putterin' around the place in some kind of a pink apron like you women can rig yourselves up in and- There ain't a girl in adalia has dropped out of things the way I have, I had a singin' voice that everybody in this town said- There's the piano, Hanna, bought special for it.
"Gaslight Sonatas"
Fannie Hurst
In adalia, chiefly remarkable for the Indestructo Safe Works and a river which annually overflows its banks, with casualties, the houses sit well back from tree-bordered streets, most of them frame, shingle-roofed veterans that have lived through the cycle-like years of the bearing, the marrying, the burying of two, even three, generations of the same surname.
"Gaslight Sonatas"
Fannie Hurst
In spring adalia is like a dear old lady's garden of marigold and bleeding-heart.
"Gaslight Sonatas"
Fannie Hurst
