The Road to Understanding Eleanor H. Porter Author
                        
                     
                                            
                            
                                                                by Eleanor H. Porter
                                                                
                                    2021-04-10 03:04:36
                                
                                
                             
                         
                                     
                
                    The Road to Understanding Eleanor H. Porter Author
                                            
                                                            by Eleanor H. Porter
                                                        
                                2021-04-10 03:04:36
                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                                                If Burke Denby had not been given all the frosted cakes and toy shotguns he wanted at the age of ten, it might not have been so difficult to convince him at the age of twenty that he did not want to marry Helen Barnet. Mabel, the beautiful and adored...
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                                                If Burke Denby had not been given all the frosted cakes and toy shotguns he wanted at the age of ten, it might not have been so difficult to convince him at the age of twenty that he did not want to marry Helen Barnet. Mabel, the beautiful and adored wife of John Denby, had died when Burke was four years old; and since that time, life, for Burke, had been victory unseasoned with defeat. A succession of anything-for-peace rulers of the nursery, and a father who could not bring himself to be the cause of the slightest shadow on the face of one who was the breathing image of his lost wife, had all contributed to these victories.
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