His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bit ...
Rather, it was Gerald's compact smallness that made him what he was, for he had learned early that little people must be hardy to survive among large ...
His five brothers and their father stood six feet and over and broad in proportion, but little Gerald, at twenty-one, knew that five feet four and a h ...
His five tall brothers gave him good-by with admiring but slightly patronizing smiles, for Gerald was the baby and the little one of a brawny family.
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He left home with his mother's hasty kiss on his cheek and her fervent Catholic blessing in his ears, and his father's parting admonition, Remember wh ...
Now they were successful merchants in Savannah, though the dear God alone knows where that may be, as their mother always interpolated when mentioning ...