Category: Novels
"_Do you hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows; The young birds are chirping in their nest; The young fa...
From the day when he took the farmers of his county to see how another man had harnessed the creek which ran wild through his pastures, setting it to work to cut the wood, and g...
1. CHAPTER I."_Do you hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. T...
18. CHAPTER XVIII."_I hear the throb and the laugh of life, While violets bloom at my feet, For, oh, there is much to gain and to give Where the town and the country meet._"
5. CHAPTER V.The dreams of our youth are long in coming true. When at last they do arrive we have worked so hard for them, watched them grow from such humble, unpromising beginnings, come th...
9. CHAPTER IX.Very often, in planning his trips to examine the children's school gardens, Billy arranged an itinerary touching the neighborhood of the Evison home, and took Marjorie with him....
8. CHAPTER VIII."_We are so often ashamed of the earth--the soil of it, the sweat of it, the good common coarseness. To us in our fine raiment and soft manners it seems indelicate. Bring out yo...
12. CHAPTER XII."_These laid the world away; poured out the red Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene That men call age; and those who would have...
15. CHAPTER XV.It was all a mistake, somehow, the reception. In his letters to Ruth, Billy had been the same unassuming young Canadian who could find an interest in working every night for a w...
11. CHAPTER XI."_Not unto the forest, O my lover, O my lover, do not lead me to the forest. Joy is where the temples are, lines of dancers swinging far, Drums and lyres and viols in the town,...
4. CHAPTER IV."_He was a boy whose emotions were hidden under mountains of reserve; who could have stood up to be shot more easily than he could have said: 'I love you.' .... I have wondered...
6. CHAPTER VI."_That a girl may make five dollars a day in a canning club during the summer, or a boy win a prize of one hundred dollars for feeding a baby beef, is one of the lesser advantag...
3. CHAPTER III."_I want to tell you how much I love you. I also want not to tell you at all, but to do something for you with my hands and feet, to make your bed, to pick lavender pine cones f...
14. CHAPTER XIV.It was very quiet in the neighborhood after the battalion left. Over the whole green country always known as a retreat from the strain and noise and gaiety of the town, there br...
17. CHAPTER XVII."_A tribal mind came into existence. Man had entered upon the long and tortuous and difficult path toward a life for the common good, with all its sacrifice of personal impulse,...
2. CHAPTER II.Fears for Dolly were not ungrounded. Following the instinct of her kind, the aristocratic little Jersey had slipped away by herself on this particular afternoon. Billy found the...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Ruth had looked ahead to the day not without foreboding. Why, in the name of all that was sane, she wondered, should a man want to go and uncover the grave of his dreams at a ti...
7. CHAPTER VII.With the unfolding of the willow-buds at the edge of the marshes, and the high, warm sun piercing the March winds, came a change to the Swamp Farm. When every growing thing was...
19. CHAPTER XIX._"One can miss the best happiness of marriage because one travels through it in kid gloves, Pullman cars, first-class staterooms, and grand hotels. Rich, city-bred, voluntarily...
16. CHAPTER XVI.So much can happen between the kindling of fires in hearts and on the hearth of a new household. It is such a shy, questioning, never-to-be-repeated time, filled with the anxiet...