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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