By: Ardis E. Parshall - April 14, 2014 Because of the Word By Hazel M. Thomson Previous Chapter Chapter 3 Synopsis: Ruth Ann Barker, who lives, in the early 1830s, with her widowed father, a farmer in the Naumkeg Valley of New England, dislikes farm life and cannot decide to marry Victor Hall, a neighboring farmer. While Ruth Ann is in Boston visiting her cousin Claire Mayhew, she meets Quinton Palmer, a suitor of Clare’s who declares ...
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