By: Ardis E. Parshall - April 09, 2014 Because of the Word By Hazel M. Thomson Previous Chapter Chapter 2 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. Ruth Ann goes to Boston to visit her cousin Claire Mayhew, and meets Quinton Palmer, a suitor of Claire’s, whose declares ...
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