A Kentucky cardinal ; and, Aftermath . VIII T is a year and four monthssince Georgiana left me,and now everything goeson much as it did beforeshe came. The family havemoved back to their homein Henderson, returning like, a little company of travellerswho have lost their has already married ; her brother writesme that he is soon to be; the mother visitsme and my child, yearningly, but seldom, onaccount of her delicate health ; and thus our271. lives grow always more apart. No one takestheir place, the house having passed to peoplewith whom, beyond all neighbourly civilities,I have
A Kentucky cardinal ; and, Aftermath . VIII T is a year and four monthssince Georgiana left me,and now everything goeson much as it did beforeshe came. The family havemoved back to their homein Henderson, returning like, a little company of travellerswho have lost their has already married ; her brother writesme that he is soon to be; the mother visitsme and my child, yearningly, but seldom, onaccount of her delicate health ; and thus our271. lives grow always more apart. No one takestheir place, the house having passed to peoplewith whom, beyond all neighbourly civilities,I have naught to do. Nowadays as I strollaround my garden with my little boy in myarms, strange faces look down upon us out ofGeorgianas window. And I have long since gone back to the harvest has been gathered from ourstrong, true land, a growth comes on which latein the year causes the earth to regain some-what of its old greenness. New blades springup in the stubble of the wheat; the beelessclover runs and blossoms; far and wide overthe meadows flow the tufted billows of thegrass; and in the woods the oak-tree drops thepurple and brown of his leaf and mast upon theverdure of June. Everywhere a second springputs forth between summer gone and winternearing. It is the overflow of plenty beyondthe filling of the barns. It is a wave of lifefollowing quickly upon the one that brokebountifully at our feet. It is natures refusalto be once reaped an
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