The Crystal City: the Tales of Alvin Maker, volume Vi
“He could see how most things were supposed to fit, and where the irregularities were that made it so they didn’t. Most things—and most people. He could see who was friends and who was enemies, where pride or envy made a rift that few could see. The difference was that when two barrel staves didn’t fit, he could get inside them and almost without thinking—and certainly without effort—change them till they did fit.
It wasn’t quite so easy with people. You had to talk them round, or figure out a w...ay to change what they wanted or what they believed about the world. Still, it was a good knack for a lawyer to have. He could size people up pretty readily, not as individuals, but how they fit together as families and communities.
Riding into the town of Springfield in Noisy River, Verily got a feel for the place right away.
The people that he met stopped and looked at him—what could a stranger expect, here on the frontier? Or at least what passed for frontier now. With the Mizzippy closed to white settlement, the land here was filling up fast.MoreLess
It wasn’t quite so easy with people. You had to talk them round, or figure out a w...ay to change what they wanted or what they believed about the world. Still, it was a good knack for a lawyer to have. He could size people up pretty readily, not as individuals, but how they fit together as families and communities.
Riding into the town of Springfield in Noisy River, Verily got a feel for the place right away.
The people that he met stopped and looked at him—what could a stranger expect, here on the frontier? Or at least what passed for frontier now. With the Mizzippy closed to white settlement, the land here was filling up fast.MoreLess
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