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Updated: June 23, 2025
She was silent again for a minute. Then she said: "I see nothing for it but to cultivate the Meadowsweets." "Mother!" said Catherine. The old fire and anger had come into her voice. Unusual as it may be with any girl brought up in such a worldly manner, Catherine hated to take advantage of people.
The Meadowsweets lived at the far end of the town in a large gray stone house. The house stood back a little from the road, and a great elm tree threw its protecting shade over the porch and upper windows.
Then it was that, deep hidden in the night and all alone, where the stream ran into a pool above big bowlders which banked it at the spot, indeed, where she had reigned over the milky meadowsweets seated on a granite throne the vibrating thread of Joan Tregenza's little life was sharply severed and she died with none to see or hear, in that tumult of rising waters which splashed and gurgled and rose on the skirts of the coming storm.
There are the important people in all histories, and such a place in this small chronicle must the Bertrams hold, and the Meadowsweets. But Matty, too, had her niche, and it was permitted to her to pull some not unimportant wires in this puppet show.
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