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Clover

CHAPTER IV
15/21

If I don't stay and grind away at the mill, there is no one to pay for this long journey.
Clover will have to do her best." "And a very good best it will be you'll see," said Katy, consolingly.
"Does Dr.Hope tell you anything about the place ?" she added, turning over the letter which her father had handed her.
"Oh, he says the scenery is fine, and the mean rain-fall is this, and the mean precipitation that, and that boarding-places can be had.

That is pretty much all.

So far as climate goes, it is the right place, but I presume the accommodations are poor enough.

The children must go prepared to rough it.

The town was only settled ten or eleven years ago; there hasn't been time to make things comfortable," remarked Dr.Carr, with a truly Eastern ignorance of the rapid way in which things march in the far West.
Clover's feelings when the decision was announced to her it would be hard to explain in full.


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