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CHAPTER I.

'The Knot There's No Untying.'

The last day of the story is dated just subsequent to that point in the development of the seasons when country people go to bed among nearly naked trees, and awake the next morning among green ones; when the landscape appears embarrassed with the sudden weight and brilliancy of its leaves; when the night-jar comes and commences for the summer his tune of one note; when the apple-trees have bloomed, and the roads and orchards become spotted with fallen petals; when the faces of the delicate

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