Olive Higgins Prouty

Name: The Star in the Window — Chapter 34
Author: Olive Higgins Prouty

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“The Star in the Window — Chapter 34”, is a work by Olive Higgins Prouty. It explores elements such as Reba, Ridgefield and Pattie.

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 34

“ So talk fast, Reba. Come, tell me, what horrible thing is it you've escaped that makes you so thankful to heaven for your New England rock-bottom? This mysterious husband of yours, child?"
"Oh, no. Not Nathan," Reba assured her. "I should hope I wasn't trying to escape the man I married of my own free will."
"Oh!" the intuitive Cousin Pattie exclaimed. There was an emphasis in the girl's speech that substantiated the rumor about her, which she had heard at Hattie Miles'. "Look here," she asked bluntly in a lower tone. "Is it another man who's messed up your affairs for you, Reba?" ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 34

“ My gracious, you've got 'em, Reba!"
"Oh, no, I haven't. I haven't many convictions. On most things I'm still groping, fumbling, waiting—waiting——"
"Naturally," interrupted Cousin Pattie, impatiently. "What do you expect? Rome wasn't built in a day, child. Souls don't get their buildings all up, and streets all laid out spick and span in a moment. What makes me rejoice is, you've got a soul, Reba. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 34

“ Bergstrom sat many a morning side by side in the Ridgefield town-hall, folding gauze, rolling bandages, and comparing knitting stitches. The local orators in their speeches referred to the Ridgefield men in their country's service as "Our boys." How it made one thrill—fight to keep the tears back—"Our boys!" Rich or poor, native or foreign-born, conscript or volunteer, private or officer, commissioned or non-commissioned, each and every one of them—ours—to hope for, to pray for, to work for, to be proud of ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 34

“ Upon re-reading Nathan's note, Reba concluded that he had not yet offered his services officially to his country. It would be in the navy, of course, that he, a sailor, would enlist. It occurred to her that if she didn't write immediately some great monster of the ocean might carry Nathan out of her reach completely. She mustn't lose even a day! ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 34

“ It takes a long while for our letters to reach each other."
"Mixed up in the war some way, is he?"
"Oh, no. I doubt if Nathan is even an American citizen. He lives at sea, you know."
"You going to live at sea too? Little land creature like you?"
"If he wants me to. I'm going to do anything he wants me to do."
A half-hour later Cousin Pattie was steaming noisily toward Union. Reba walked back from the station to the town-hall. She must finish her records before locking up and going home. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 34 (1918)

“ Dear Nathan:
Your package has just come. You didn't understand that letter of mine. You didn't understand it at all. I don't want to be free of my marriage promises. I don't want to mean less to you. I want to mean more. Truly I do. Please come and give me a chance to mean more. You can enlist afterward. I won't stop you, but come first, please.
Good-by,
Rebecca. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 34

“ But now, she didn't want release! She didn't want things made easy, smoothed out for her, who had erred so gravely. To be relieved of her marriage vows robbed her of her only opportunity for atonement. ”

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Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 34

“ There had been a welding together of sympathies in Ridgefield such as had not been known there since '62. The son of Mr. Horween, who sat at a mahogany desk in the luxurious general manager's office of the Ridgefield Wire Company, was a tentmate of the son of Hans Bergstrom, who ran a lathe in the same concern; and Mrs. ”

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