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| | Zona Gale |
 | | In story after story Miss Gale varied the same device: that of showing how childlike children are, how sisterly are sisters, how brotherly are brothers, how motherly are mothers, how fatherly are fathers, how grandmotherly and grandfatherly are grandmothers and grandfathers, and how loverly are all true lovers of whatever age, sex, color, or condition. |
 | | But beneath the human kindness which had permitted Miss Gale to fall into this technique lay the sinews of a very subtle intelligence ; and she needed only the encouragement of a changing public taste to be able to escape from her sugary preoccupations. |
 | | Her story is as spare as the virgin frame of Lulu Bett; her style is staccato in its lucid brevity, like Lulu's infrequent speeches; her eloquence is not that of a tor-rent of words and images but that of comic or ironic or tragic meaning packed in a syllable, a gesture, a dumb silence. |
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