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A Country Idyl, and Other Stories

By Sarah Knowles Bolton

2020-02-22 08:34:56

Excerpt from A Country Idyl: And Other Stories Nellie Crandall grew from babyhood the picture of health, an innocent, cheerful girl, in sweet accord with the daisies of the fields and the old-fashioned flowers she cared for in her foster-mother's g ... Read more
Excerpt from A Country Idyl: And Other Stories Nellie Crandall grew from babyhood the picture of health, an innocent, cheerful girl, in sweet accord with the daisies of the fields and the old-fashioned flowers she cared for in her foster-mother's garden. In the house across the way lived John Harding, a tall, awkward boy, the pride of the country School for his good scholarship, and in principle as strong as the New England hills he lived among. John and Nellie had played together from childhood. He had made chains for her neck of the pine needles; she had fastened golden coreopsis in his homespun coat; and, while no word had been spoken, the neighboring people expected that a new house would sometime be built in Nineveh, and a young couple begin anew the beautiful commonplaces of life. Less

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File size243.028 KB
Print pages280
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2016-05-25
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1409701323
Sarah Knowles Bolton (September 15, 1841 – February 21, 1916) was an American writer. She was born in Farmington, Connecticut. In 1866, she married Charles E. Bolton, a merchant, and philanthropist....

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