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Larch was also not fond of Melony—specifically, he was not fond of her apparent hold on Homer Wells. 'You may resemble your father, with my pel-mission, in every aspect but in his drunkenness,' she told Wally. ' Melony stared at the mitten, which she held in her hand — the mitten was very heavy; it was full of ball bearings that Lorna had swiped from the shipyards. He also possessed the self-righteousness of the young and wounded; Homer Wells had no doubts to soften his co

'Well, I guess I'd think about it,' Homer Wells said. It did not occur to Homer that this had been the first time someone had said 'I love you' to the stationmaster. ' But later he'd come up to Homer and whispered to him, 'Not all of them's got holes. As a child he was [33] embarrassed to be caught staring at adults, sometimes affectionately, other times with an instinctual hostility he would not have recognized on his own face.