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He came with the second load on the following afternoon, and the interplay repeated itself, but with a difference. He was less shy, but more grave, and he talked, and his talk was of the life on the soil. She felt that there was a purpose behind his words; he was warning her; three years ago she had humiliated his pride in his job, and now he talked to justify his pride in it, though there was no need for him to justify it.
He said that in these days the world seemed shy of the soil.