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Updated: May 12, 2025
The pure air, and the long summer hours in the open, gave back life and elasticity to Mattie, and Zeena, with more leisure to devote to her complex ailments, grew less watchful of the girl's omissions; so that Ethan, struggling on under the burden of his barren farm and failing saw-mill, could at least imagine that peace reigned in his house.
He recalled his mother's growing taciturnity, and wondered if Zeena were also turning "queer." Women did, he knew.
But sometimes the two of them get going at each other, and then Ethan's face'd break your heart... When I see that, I think it's him that suffers most... anyhow it ain't Zeena, because she ain't got the time... It's a pity, though," Mrs. Hale ended, sighing, "that they're all shut up there'n that one kitchen.
Zeena, who had gone back to her seat by the stove, did not lift her head from her book as he passed. Mattie followed him out of the door and helped him to lift the trunk into the back of the sleigh. When it was in place they stood side by side on the door-step, watching Daniel Byrne plunge off behind his fidgety horse.
It was a cushion which Zeena had made for him when they were engaged the only piece of needlework he had ever seen her do. He flung it across the floor and propped his head against the wall... He knew a case of a man over the mountain a young fellow of about his own age who had escaped from just such a life of misery by going West with the girl he cared for.
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