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The town of Mersea rested on a small bluff that looked out over the shores of Lake Erie; and had the waters of that lake not reversed their flow from the Mississippi to St. Lawrence when some catalysm of nature opened up the Niagara Gorge, the few acres of raised land on which Mersea sat might have remained an island, cut off from the mainland by ten or fifteen miles of shallow lake. Read the first page
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afterwards
again
against
air
alfredo
along
already
always
amherst
appeared
aunt
away
baby
between
came
come
crystal
day
down
elena
end
even
family
farm
father
felt
few
field
finally
first
gelsomina
get
go
going
got
greenhouses
hand
home
house
instant
italian
kind
know
left
life
little
long
look
looked
man
merely
might
moment
mr
myself
new
next
night
nothing
now
old
once
own
people
place
put
right
rita
room
school
see
seemed
sense
set
silence
simply
sister
small
something
sometimes
sort
still
suddenly
take
teresa
things
think
though
thought
time
took
toward
tsi
two
week
went
work
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years
yet
