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The Harvester

CHAPTER XIII
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That's a perfect location.

The thing that worries me is what you are going to do for company, especially while I am away." "Don't trouble yourself about anything," she said.

"Just say in your heart, 'she is going to be stronger than she ever has been in her life in this lovely place, and she has more right now than she ever had or hoped to have.' For one thing, I am going to study your books.

I never have had time before.

While we sewed or embroidered, mother talked by the hour of the great writers of the world, told me what they wrote, and how they expressed themselves, but I got to read very little for myself." "Books are my company," said the Harvester.
"Do your friends come often ?" "Almost never! Doc and his wife come most, and if you look out some day and see a white-haired, bent old woman, with a face as sweet as dawn, coming up the bank of Singing Water, that will be my mother's friend, Granny Moreland, who joins us on the north over there.


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