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Heart's Kindred

Chapter 1: HEART’S KINDRED
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The narrative follows a solitary, rugged man known as the Inger who lives in a simple mountain clearing and receives his traveling father; their quiet reunion and conversations reveal regrets, differing ambitions, and a familial bond. Nearby the declining village prepares for a boisterous wedding that exposes local tensions, debts, and shifting fortunes. Interwoven scenes portray everyday labor, small-town gossip, and memories of past prosperity, while themes of luck, moral compromise, loneliness, and the pull of home shape characters' choices. The work moves between intimate domestic detail and broader social observation, tracing how personal histories and community change intertwine.

HEART’S KINDRED


 

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

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MACMILLAN & CO., Limited

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MELBOURNE

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TORONTO


For a moment he let himself watch her, and catching his look, she smiled, as she had smiled when his eyes had met hers as he woke.

HEART’S KINDRED

BY

ZONA GALE

AUTHOR OF

“FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE,” “NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES”
“THE LOVES OF PELLEAS AND ETARRE”
“CHRISTMAS,” ETC.

WITH FRONTISPIECE

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1915

All rights reserved


Copyright, 1915,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.


Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1915.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TO
THOSE WHO OBEY
THE
SIXTH COMMANDMENT