How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
The two girls had often gone riding together aboard Babe's wide back, jogged through the wheat fields on hot summer evenings down to the river and into the water, the mare wading against the current until, as Sue once described it, "the three of us were cool as fish." (4.47)
This is one of our last descriptions of Holcomb, and it's pretty idyllic. The irony is that it comes after the description of the auctioning off of the entire property and contents of the Clutter home and farm. Past and present are in sharp contrast here.