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The Country of the Pointed Firs
·
Sarah Orne Jewett
71
“Very
late
in
the
summer,”
said
Mrs.
Fosdick.
“No,
I
never
could
laugh
at
Joanna,
as
some
did.
She
set
everything
by
the
young
man,
an'
they
were
going
to
marry
in
about
a
month,
when
he
got
bewitched
with
a
girl
'way
up
the
bay,
and
married
her,
and
went
off
to
Massachusetts.
He
wasn't
well
thought
of,--there
were
those
who
thought
Joanna's
money
was
what
had
tempted
him;
but
she'd
given
him
her
whole
heart,
an'
she
wa'n't
so
young
as
she
had
been.
All
her
hopes
were
built
on
marryin',
an'
havin'
a
real
home
and
somebody
to
look
to;
she
acted
just
like
a
bird
when
its
nest
is
spoilt.
The
day
after
she
heard
the
news
she
was
in
dreadful
woe,
but
the
next
she
came
to
herself
very
quiet,
and
took
the
horse
and
wagon,
and
drove
fourteen
miles
to
the
lawyer's,
and
signed
a
paper
givin'
her
half
of
the
farm
to
her
brother.
They
never
had
got
along
very
well
together,
but
he
didn't
want
to
sign
it,
till
she
acted
so
distressed
that
he
gave
in.
Edward
Todd's
wife
was
a
good
woman,
who
felt
very
bad
indeed,
and
used
every
argument
with
Joanna;
but
Joanna
took
a
poor
old
boat
that
had
been
her
father's
and
lo'ded
in
a
few
things,
and
off
she
put
all
alone,
with
a
good
land
breeze,
right
out
to
sea.
Edward
Todd
ran
down
to
the
beach,
an'
stood
there
cryin'
like
a
boy
to
see
her
go,
but
she
was
out
o'
hearin'.
She
never
stepped
foot
on
the
mainland
again
long
as
she
lived.”
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