Smiles: A Rose of the Cumberlands (Dodo Press)

Eliot Harlow Robinson (1884-1953) was an American author. He wrote "Smiles": A Rose of the Cumberlands (1919) and The Man from Smiling Pass (1924). "The man came to a stop, a look of humiliation and deep self-disgust on his bronzed face. With methodical care he leaned his rifle against the seamed trunk of a forest patriarch and drew the sleeve of his hunting shirt across his forehead, now glistening with beads of sweat; then, and not until then, did he relieve his injured feelings by giving voice to a short but soul-satisfying expletive. "