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The Harvester

CHAPTER XX
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There is enough room for a piano between your door and the south wall and that corner seems vacant anyway.

You would like it, David, I know, if I could play and sing just enough to put you to sleep nicely.
It is in the back of my head that I will try to do every single thing, just as they want me to, and that will make them happy, but never forget that the instant I feel in my soul that your kiss is right on my lips, I am coming to you by lightning express; and I told them so the first thing, and that I only came because you made me.
"They did not raise an objection, but I am not so dull that I cannot see they are trying to bind me to them from the very first with chains too strong to break.

We had just one little clash.

Grandfather was mightily pleased over what you told Mr.Kennedy about my never having been your wife, and that I was really free.

There seems to be a man, the son of his partner, whom grandfather dearly loves, and he wants me to be friends with his friend.


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