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Later in his life, when the years must inevitably dim Nessie’s corn-silk hair and fade the pansies in her eyes, Abner would look upon his household drudge with the stolid indifference of all hillmen for all hill wives, but just at this moment the thought of Nessie wearying her fingers by lifting so much as a cambric needle filled him with a melancholy as exquisite and aching as the dawn of first love itself.

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