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Rose stood looking after him a minute; then she struck off across the field. Her knees trembled as she stepped over the soft plough-ridges. When she was out on the road again she went along quickly until she came to the Thayer house. She was going past that when she heard some one calling her name, and turned to see who it was.
You sha'n't ever sit down to a meal in your father's and mother's house whilst this goes on." "G'lang!" said Barnabas. The horse started, and he bent to the plough. His mother stepped homeward over the plough-ridges with stern unyielding steps, as if they were her enemies slain in battle. Just as she reached her own yard her husband drove in on a rattling farm cart.
There came a day when he gave her the last dollar upon her New England soil, full of old plough-ridges and dried weeds and stones. Sylvia went home with it in the pocket of her quilted petticoat under her dress skirt. She kept feeling of it to see if it were safe as she walked along.
Over across the fields red oxen were moving down plough-ridges, the green grass was springing, the air was full of that strange fragrance which is more than fragrance, since it strikes the thoughts, which comes in the spring alone, being the very odor thrown off by the growing motion of life and the resurrection.
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