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“ One of her New Year resolutions, she promised, was to give as much comfort to others as she had received. She had much to be thankful for, and self-pity was not going to be allowed to creep in. About that she was adamant.”

Christmas: “There was an element of sadness in this type of remembering, without doubt, but in fact it was all part and parcel of the renewing of ties between family and friends, and should be considered as something specially dear as one recalled, with gratitude, the days gone by. Nothing, after all, would take those memories away, and they grew more dearly cherished as the years passed.”

“ It was a golden evening. A glimpse of a cornfield in the distance showed the crop already looking a pale gold in the low rays of the sinking sun. A nearby row of trees had their trunks turned to bronze on their north-west side. It was going to be a spectacular sunset, thought Agnes…” ahhhh, June in Thrush Green…