Knowing that Mr. and Mrs. Benson cowgirls did not like him as well as he had hoped, he determined to marry Ruth, and to prohibit all intercourse with her family. In everything else he was cowgirls thoroughly honorable, but he tenaciously held to this point. Ruth Benson, loving him cowgirls devotedly, and believing all he said or did was infallible, implicitly obeyed this strange request without a cowgirls question, and neither did she hear of or from her parents.
That cowgirls the unnecessary sacrifice did not add to her happiness, was proven by the fact that cowgirls she lost her free, light-hearted ways, and became quiet and cowgirls melancholy, after a year or two of married life. Her husband was
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cowgirls proud—too proud to admit that cowgirls he had made a mistake, until it was too late for such an admission to do any good, and so after a few years she died, cowgirls leaving behind her little namesake, Ruth. She seemed to have transmitted to the child in a large measure her own disposition, for Ruth was always a grave, silent, little thing, entirely unlike other children, and quite old for her years.
It was cowgirls nice too, she possessed such
a sweet disposition and even temper, for when her father brought home cowgirls a cowgirls new mother for the little Ruth, many changes
were made cowgirls in the home, and great would have been the discord but for Ruth's peaceful characteristics. Shortly after his second marriage, John Rudd moved to Bartonville, whether for business openings, or to be near the early home of cowgirls Ruth's mother, no cowgirls one ever knew.
Ruth knew the story of her mother's married life, of the home of her girlhood, and of the kind parents, but she did not know where the cowgirls home was.
Whatever the reason for his coming, it was well for Ruth and Jem, for as I have said, provision cowgirls was now made for them both at Major Joe's farm.
Ruth's life thus far, since the cares of the home were put cowgirls upon her at the death of Jem's mother, had been an
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uneventful one. She had no cowgirls companion cowgirls but her little sister, who so filled her brain, and heart, and time, cowgirls that she had no opportunity to grow lonesome. Personally, Ruth would have felt happier if her father had allowed the love, cowgirls she doubted not he held for cowgirls her, to find expression in a word of praise, a tender kiss, or appreciation of her efforts. But her father never thought of this longing of his daughter: he was so self-contained himself, cowgirls and unemotionally inclined,