The Queen's Twin and Other Stories

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Title: The Queen's Twin and Other Stories
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
Release Date: March 13, 2008 [EBook #24822]
Language: English
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THE QUEEN'S TWIN
AND OTHER STORIES
BY SARAH ORNE JEWETTBOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
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SUSAN BURLEY CABOTCONTENTS
THE QUEEN'S TWIN A DUNNET SHEPHERDESS WHERE'S NORA BOLD WORDS AT THE BRIDGE
MARTHA'S LADY THE COON DOG AUNT CYNTHY DALLETT THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVINGTHE QUEEN'S TWIN.
I.
The coast of Maine was in former years brought so near to foreign shores by its busy fleet of ships that among the older
men and women one still finds a surprising proportion of travelers. Each seaward-stretching headland with its high-set
houses, each island of a single farm, has sent its spies to view many a Land of Eshcol; one may see plain, contented old
faces at the windows, whose eyes have looked at far-away ports and known the splendors of the Eastern world. They
shame the easy voyager of the North Atlantic and ...