Olive Higgins Prouty

Name: The Star in the Window — Chapter 33
Author: Olive Higgins Prouty

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“The Star in the Window — Chapter 33”, is a work by Olive Higgins Prouty. It explores elements such as Rebecca, Nathan and Barton.

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 33

“ Dear Rebecca:
I am sending you an engagement ring because you never had one. Most girls are engaged before they are married, but it's the other way round with you. I am asking you to be engaged after you are married. And just as most girls' engagements are followed by marriage, yours, Rebecca, is to be followed by friendship. The fortunes of a sailor are uncertain always, but especially in time of war. I have been thinking of getting into the war myself, and before doing it, it seems only fair to relieve you of all further obligations to me. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 33

“ Oh, all that recalled so vividly to Nathaniel Cawthorne the martyrlike attitude of the brave woman up there in the tarpaper covered shack on the edge of the Maine woods that he shuddered at the similarity. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 33

“ Poor tormented girl! He understood now why her notes to him had been brief and impersonal. They had not cloaked an inarticulate love, as he had dimly hoped, but instead a fear, a dread, perhaps an actual aversion. Often he had seen his mother's high sense of duty triumph like this over fear and aversion. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 33

“ Perhaps I better wake up, and take a little part in things. Man of my age can't be putting energy into educating himself too finely, without some pretty good excuse, these times, seems to me."
"What do you mean? What foolish notion have you gone and got now?" demanded Mrs. Barton, with sudden energy.
"Well," Nathan shrugged, "I might as well get into it first as last."
"Are you going to enlist, Nathan?" Robert asked gravely.
Nathan was embarrassed. War had been declared only a fortnight. He didn't want to appear impulsive. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 33

“ He didn't want Rebecca to surmise that he had been working a deception upon her all these years. She must never guess how hard he had tried to make himself suitable for her. He didn't want pity any more than he wanted submission.
More than a year ago Nathan had bought an engagement ring for Rebecca. He had observed that in Mrs. Barton's world most all the young married women wore engagement-rings with their wedding-rings, and he had asked Mrs. Barton to help him pick one out. He had drawn twenty-five dollars from his savings-bank account, to pay for the ring. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 33

“ Barton."
Robert Barton told his mother that night, after Nathan had gone to his room, that he thought he understood the reason for the boy's decision.
"It is the result of the general waking-up in him. He's never felt any personal responsibility toward anything before—least of all toward a big affair like the U. S. A. Education has created in him a new feeling of respectability, a new feeling of responsibility too, which he can't quite dodge. I saw that he was interested when Jenkins, the young ambulance-driver, was here, but I had no idea it was as serious as this. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 33

“ Lives in New York. He's interested in things military. Spent two summers at Plattsburg. He'll know how to advise Nathan wisely."
"O dear, dear, how I shall miss that boy!" sighed Mrs. Barton, wiping teary eyes. "Next to you, Robert, he's the dearest boy in the world to me."
The day before Nathan started for the east (after Richard Macomber had replied to Robert Barton that he'd like to see his friend's protégé, and talk with him) he left a package in a jeweler's shop with instructions for it to be mailed on a certain date the following July. The package was for Rebecca. ”

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