Margaret Deland

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Romance novel of "humor, pathos, and loyalty". Excerpt: THE post-office in Purham was at the foot of a long hill, around which curved, like a bending arm, a little rushing brown brook. Main Street climbed this hill a little way, then paused at a watering-trough-a hollowed log, mossy and dripping and bordered with wet ferns; after that the street melted into a country road which wandered through the fields, ending as a neighborhood lane for the convenience of half a dozen houses which were only occupied during that part of the year in which the "summer people," as they were called, invaded the Purham quiet