Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches

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Sarah Orne Jewett. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches

Deephaven

Preface

Kate Lancaster's Plan

The Brandon House and the Lighthouse

My Lady Brandon and the Widow Jim

Deephaven Society

The Captains

Danny

Captain Sands

The Circus at Denby

Cunner-Fishing

Mrs. Bonny

In Shadow

Miss Chauncey

Last Days in Deephaven

Selected Stories and Sketches

An Autumn Holiday

From a Mournful Villager

An October Ride

Tom's Husband

Miss Debby's Neighbors

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This book is not wholly new, several of the chapters having already been published in the "Atlantic Monthly." It has so often been asked if Deephaven may not be found on the map of New England under another name, that, to prevent any misunderstanding, I wish to say, while there is a likeness to be traced, few of the sketches are drawn from that town itself, and the characters will in almost every case be looked for there in vain.

I dedicate this story of out-of-door life and country people first to my father and mother, my two best friends, and also to all my other friends, whose names I say to myself lovingly, though I do not write them here.

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"Do you know the Brandon house?" asked Kate.

"Well as I do the meeting-house. There! I wonder I didn't know from the beginning, but I have been a trying all the way to settle it who you could be. I've been up country some weeks, stopping with my mother, and she seemed so set to have me stay till strawberry-time, and would hardly let me come now. You see she's getting to be old; why, every time I've come away for fifteen years she's said it was the last time I'd ever see her, but she's a dreadful smart woman of her age. 'He' wrote me some o' Mrs. Lancaster's folks were going to take the Brandon house this summer; and so you are the ones? It's a sightly old place; I used to go and see Miss Katharine. She must have left a power of china-ware. She set a great deal by the house, and she kept everything just as it used to be in her mother's day."

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