A Native of Winby; And Other Tales
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Description: Microfiche. Louisville, Ky., Lost Cause Press. 5 cards. 10.5 x 14.8 cm. Subjects: United States New England Women Short stories, American Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or miss...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Description: Microfiche. Louisville, Ky., Lost Cause Press. 5 cards. 10.5 x 14.8 cm. Subjects: United States New England Women Short stories, American Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE PASSING OF SISTER BARSETT. Mrs. Mercy Crane was of such firm persuasion that a house is meant to be lived in, that during many years she was never known to leave her own neat two-storied dwelling-place on the Ridge road. Yet being very fond of company, in pleasant weather she often sat in the side doorway looking out on her green yard, where the grass grew short and thick and was undis- figured even by a path toward the steps. All her faded green blinds were securely tied together and knotted on the inside by pieces of white tape; but now and then, when the sun was not too hot for her carpets, she opened one window at a time for a few hours, having pronounced views upon the necessity of light and air. Although Mrs. Crane was acknowledged by her best friends to be a peculiar person and very set in her ways, she was much respected, and one acquaintance vied with another in making up for her melancholyseclusion by bringing her all the news they could gather. She had been left alone many years before by the sudden death of her husband from sunstroke, and though she was by no means poor, she had, as some one said, " such a pretty way of taking a little present that you could n't help being pleased when you gave her anything." For a lover of society, such a life must have had its difficulties at times, except that the Ridge road was more traveled than any other in the township, and Mrs. Crane had inven...
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