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The fragrant pink arbutus had replaced the snow-wreaths upon the hillsides, the downy whorls of the first fern fronds were pushing through the dark-brown leaves, the fragile hepaticas had opened thei…
The Ann Serrup of whom the sewing circle had whispered, was one of those melancholy scapegoats found, alas! in nearly every rural community, and lost in cities among myriads of her kind. She had live…
Three days after Lanty’s interview with Hemans, Mabella paid a visit to Vashti. Sally, grown in stature if not in grace, promptly carried off Dorothy, and the two cousins sat down opposite each other…
There are certain flowers which, when placed with other blossoms, choke and stifle and wither them by some evil emanation so subtle that it cannot be analyzed. The heliotrope is one of the flowers wh…
On Monday Dole watched the parsonage gate narrowly, but when Sidney at length came forth he found the little street silent, the doorways dumb, the windows as expressionless as the patch upon a beggar…
The next dawn drew from out the dark bright with the portents of a perfect day. All the hollow heaven was blue as a turquoise stone. Vashti faced the sunny hours, which yet loomed so black for her, w…
