Rose of Old Harpeth

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Maria Thompson Daviess. Rose of Old Harpeth

Rose of Old Harpeth

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I DEDICATE. ROSE MARY

TO MY MOTHER. LEONORA HAMILTON DAVIESS. AND THE WHOLE BOOK. TO MY GRANDMOTHER. MARIA THOMPSON DAVIESS

ROSE OF OLD HARPETH

CHAPTER I

ROSE MARY OF SWEETBRIAR

CHAPTER II

THE FOLKS-GARDEN

CHAPTER III

AT THE COURT OF DAME NATURE

CHAPTER IV

MOONLIGHT AND APPLE-BLOW

CHAPTER V

THE HONORABLE GID

CHAPTER VI

THE ENEMY, THE ROD AND THE STAFF

CHAPTER VII

THE SATSUMA VASE

CHAPTER VIII

UNCLE TUCKER'S TORCH

CHAPTER IX

THE EXODUS

CHAPTER X

IN THE HOLLOW OF HIS HAND

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Maria Thompson Daviess

Published by Good Press, 2019

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"A sort of cup of heavenly nectar," answered Everett with an answering smile, but the keen look still in his eyes. "See here, I want you to promise me something—don't ever, under any circumstances, tell anybody that I know about this mortgage. Will you?"

"Of course, I won't if you tell me not to," answered Rose Mary immediately. "I don't like to think or talk about it. I only told you because you wanted to help us. Help offers are the silver linings to trouble clouds, and you brought this one down on yourself, didn't you? Of course, it's selfish and wrong to tell people about your anxieties, but there is just no other way to get so close to a friend. Don't you think perhaps sometimes the Lord doesn't bother to 'temper the winds,' but just leads you up on the sheltered side of somebody who is stronger than you are and leaves you there until your storm is over?"

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