[The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter]@TWC D-Link bookThe Harvester CHAPTER XVI 6/110
By the hour in the night I look at my lovely room, and I just fight my eyes to keep them from closing for fear they'll open in that stifling garret to the heat of day and work I have not strength to do.
I know yet all this will prove to be a dream and a wilder one than yours." The face of the Harvester was very anxious. "Please to remember my dream came true," he said, "and much sooner than I had the least hope that it would.
I'm wide awake or I couldn't be building bridges; and you are real, if I know flesh and blood when I touch it." "If I were well, strong, and attractive, I could understand," she said. "Then I could work in the house, at the drawings, help with the herbs, and I'd feel as if I had some right to be here." "All that is coming," said the Harvester.
"Take a little more time.
You can't expect to sin steadily against the laws of health for years, and recover in a day.
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