# Diverging roads

Author: Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968

Genre: Women -- Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74612

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Diverging+roads+Lane&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There is a peculiar quality in the somnolence of an old town in which little has occurred for many years. It is the unease of relaxation without repose, the unease of one who lies too late in bed, aware that he should be getting up. The men who lounge aimlessly about the street corners cannot be wholly idle. Their hands, at least, must be busy. The scarred posts and notched edges of the board sidewalks show it; the paint on the little stations is sanded shoulder-high to prevent their whittling there. Energy struggles feebly under the weight of the slow, uneventful days; but its pressure is always there, an urge that becomes an irritation in young blood.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/diverging-roads-74612/chapters/22/index.md)