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The Lady of the Aroostook (Hardcover)
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The Lady of the Aroostook (Hardcover)
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In the best room of a farm-house on the skirts of a village in the
hills of Northern Massachusetts, there sat one morning in August
three people who were not strangers to the house, but who had
apparently assembled in the parlor as the place most in accord with
an unaccustomed finery in their dress. One was an elderly woman
with a plain, honest face, as kindly in expression as she could be
perfectly sure she felt, and no more; she rocked herself softly in
the haircloth arm-chair, and addressed as father the old man who
sat at one end of the table between the windows, and drubbed
noiselessly upon it with his stubbed fingers, while his lips,
puckered to a whistle, emitted no sound. His face had that
distinctly fresh-shaven effect which once a week is the advantage
of shaving no oftener: here and there, in the deeper wrinkles, a
frosty stubble had escaped the razor. He wore an old-fashioned, low
black satin stock, over the top of which the linen of his
unstarched collar contrived with difficulty to make itself seen;
his high-crowned, lead-colored straw hat lay on the table before
him. At the other end of the table sat a young girl, who leaned
upon it with one arm, propping her averted face on her hand. The
window was open beside her, and she was staring out upon the
door-yard, where the hens were burrowing for coolness in the soft
earth under the lilac bushes; from time to time she put her
handkerchief to her eyes.
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