Driven Back to Eden by Edward Payson Roe
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reasons for things, yet you don't half know yet that when a woman
sets her heart on something, she hasn't much left with which to long for anything else. That is, if she has a heart, which seems to be left out of some women." "I think it is, and others get a double allowance. I should be content, for I was rich the moment I won yours." "I've been more than content; I've been happy--happy all these years in city flats. Even in my tantrums and bad days I knew I was happy, deep in my heart." "I only hope you will remain as blind about your plodding old husband who couldn't make a fortune in the city." "I've seen men who made fortunes, and I've seen their wives too." I thanked God for the look on her face--a look which had been there when she was a bride, and which had survived many straitened years. So we chose our country home. The small patrimony to which we had added but little--(indeed we had often denied ourselves in order not to diminish it)--was nearly all to be invested in the farm, and a debt to be incurred, besides. While yielding to my fancy, I believed that I had at the same time chosen wisely, for, as John Jones said, the mature fruit trees of the place would begin to bring returns very soon. |
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