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A Daughter of the Land

CHAPTER VIII
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"If I talked all night I couldn't tell you about John.

How big he is, and how brave he is, and how smart he is, and how he is the equal of any business man in Chicago, and soon, if he keeps on, he will be worth as much as some of them--more than any one of his age, who has had a lot of help instead of having his way to make alone, and a sick old mother to support besides.

No, I couldn't tell you in a week half about John, and he didn't want me to come.

If I would come, then he wanted me to wait a few days until he finished a deal so he could bring me, but the minute I thought of it I was determined to come; you know how you get." "I know how badly you want to do a thing you have set your heart on," admitted Kate.
"I had gone places with Susette in perfect comfort.

I think the trouble was that she tried from the first to attract John.


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