As I remember them, what unprotected faces they were; their very roughness and violence made them defenceless. These boys had no practised manner beh… - Willa Cather

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As I remember them, what unprotected faces they were; their very roughness and violence made them defenceless. These boys had no practised manner behind which they could retreat and hold people at a distance. They only had their hard fists to batter at the world with.