By: Ardis E. Parshall - April 18, 2014 Because of the Word By Hazel M. Thomson Previous Chapter Chapter 5 Synopsis: Ruth Ann Barker, who lives in the early 1830s in the Naumkeg Valley of New England, dislikes farm life and cannot decide to marry Victor Hall, a neighboring farmer. Ruth’s widowed father has been killed in an accident and Victor helps her take care of the farm. After a second visit with her cousin Claire Mayhew in Boston,...
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