[The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter]@TWC D-Link bookThe Harvester CHAPTER I 7/29
Six years you have decided my fate, when the first bluebird came, and you've been true blue every time.
If I ever trust you again! But the mischief is done now. "Have you forgotten that your name means 'to protect ?' Don't you remember it is because of that, it is your name? Protect! I'd have trusted you with my life, Bell! You gave it to me the time you pointed that rattler within six inches of my fingers in the blood-root bed. You saw the falling limb in time to warn me.
You always know where the quicksands lie.
But you are protecting me now, like sin, ain't you? Bring a girl here to spoil both our lives! Not if I know myself! Protect!" The man arose and going inside the cabin closed the door.
After that the dog lay in abject misery so deep that two big tears squeezed from his eyes and rolled down his face.
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