Mother, do you feel a wild desire for two hundred acres of land?
Same kind of a desire that took you to come here ?" "No, I don't," said Mrs.Jardine.

"All I know about land is that I know it when I see it, and I know if I think it's pretty; but I can see why Kate feels that she would like that amount for herself, after having helped earn all those farms for her brothers.

If it's land she wants, I hope she speedily gets all she desires in whatever location she wants it; and then I hope she lets me come to visit her and watch her do as she likes with it." "Surely," said Kate, "you are invited right now; as soon as I ever get the land, I'll give you another invitation.

And of course you may go home with me, Mr.Jardine, and I'll show you each of what Father calls 'those little parcels of land of mine.' But the one he lives on we shall have to gaze at from afar, because I'm a Prodigal Daughter.

When I would leave home in spite of him for the gay and riotous life of a school-marm, he ordered me to take all my possessions with me, which I did in one small telescope.