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<Author>Faulkner, William</Author>
<Title>Sanctuary</Title>
<Edition>Novels, 1930-1935. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1985</Edition>
<Date>1931</Date>
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<p>From beyond the screen of bushes which surrounded the
spring, Popeye watched the man drinking. A faint path led
from the road to the spring. Popeye watched the man -- a
tall, thin man, hatless, in worn gray flannel trousers and
carrying a tweed coat over his arm -- emerge from the path
and kneel to drink from the spring.
<p>The spring welled up at the root of a beech tree and
flowed away upon a bottom of whorled and waved sand. It was
surrounded by a thick growth of cane and brier, of cypress
and gum in which broken sunlight lay sourceless. Somewhere,
hid-den and secret yet nearby, a bird sang three notes and
ceased._In the spring the drinking man leaned his fac . . .
