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Arizona Duology #1
The Man of the Desert
Fleeing the unwanted attentions of an aggressive suitor, wealthy and beautiful Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Weak and weary, she falls unconscious from her horse. Soon Hazel is found by John Brownleigh, a handsome missionary who lives in the desert. As he carefully nurses Hazel back to health, a strong and true love begins to grow between them. But John, poor and humble, knows he is not of Hazel's world, so he does not speak of his love. And because Hazel feels strongly unworthy of John and his work, she, too, remains silent. And so they part, without acknowledging the love between them.
Back home among her family and friends, Hazel makes a startling decision: she will do all she can to change and become deserving of John's love. But can she do so before it's too late?
Back home among her family and friends, Hazel makes a startling decision: she will do all she can to change and become deserving of John's love. But can she do so before it's too late?
196 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1914
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Grace Livingston Hill
593 books570 followersalso wrote under the pseudonym Marcia MacDonald
also published under the name Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
A popular author of her day, she wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories of religious and Christian fiction. Her characters were most often young female ingénues, frequently strong Christian women or those who become so within the confines of the story.
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also published under the name Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
A popular author of her day, she wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories of religious and Christian fiction. Her characters were most often young female ingénues, frequently strong Christian women or those who become so within the confines of the story.
niece to Isabella MacDonald Alden
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January 21, 2013
This book was fascinating. A man leaves his home to go out west to minister to the lawless men and Indians of the West. A rich girl and her father and brother are out horseback riding. The girl's horse runs away with her, and she is utterly lost. The man of the dessert does everything in his power to find her, and finally does. During the long ride back to her father's car, they get to know each other well. She feels unworthy of him, even though she has fallen in love with him, because he has such a pure relationship with his Savior. She goes back home and strives to know Christ better. It is a beautiful story and one I highly enjoyed.
May 31, 2011
Grace Livingston Hill is my guilty pleasure...This is one of my favorites!
July 20, 2019
This is not great literature. You cannot think about it at all without everything falling apart. The hero is impossibly perfect. The plot is driven by coincidence on top of coincidence. The heroine's character flaws are entirely due to her upbringing, she overcomes them all by the end of the book, and even the hero's horse thinks she's unbelievably wonderful. It's preachy. It is not free of GLH's social snobbery -- while on the one hand Hill clearly sees all human beings as equal before God, OTOH she isn't above calling various Indian tribes primitive, or people of the servant class simple. One of her Indian characters is clearly a strong and reliable thinking man, but she makes him talk like Tonto.
But as a child, Tonto was my hero, and I didn't mind that both he and the Lone Ranger were impossibly perfect human beings (barring Tonto's language skills). Maybe I wasn't a child, the first time I read this, but I wasn't much more than a teenager, and I loved it. Still love it. It's short enough that GLH doesn't lose sight of her original vision; it's got a lot of Hill's domestic touches; and some of the descriptive passages are just magic. And I don't even like the kind of scenery she's describing. Still works for me.
But as a child, Tonto was my hero, and I didn't mind that both he and the Lone Ranger were impossibly perfect human beings (barring Tonto's language skills). Maybe I wasn't a child, the first time I read this, but I wasn't much more than a teenager, and I loved it. Still love it. It's short enough that GLH doesn't lose sight of her original vision; it's got a lot of Hill's domestic touches; and some of the descriptive passages are just magic. And I don't even like the kind of scenery she's describing. Still works for me.
January 3, 2012
My favorite of the Grace Livingston Hill books, Oh for a man with that strength of character and faith in God.
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January 26, 2016A bit different from the others, it's almost a western. Loved it.
May 7, 2016
Loved it!
It is a bit different from others by her that I've read but good nonetheless. I enjoyed it very much.
It is a bit different from others by her that I've read but good nonetheless. I enjoyed it very much.
March 8, 2021
This book was somewhere between a three and a four for me. There were many delightful scenes, but there were some other scenes that were "cringy" or "cringe-worthy," as my teens would say. I was tempted to rate it a 4 anyway, but nope, those cringy scenes are important enough not to.
My first impression of this book was that it reminded me of Zane Grey's "The Man of the Forest" - falling in love in the wild vastness of nature, a mostly-solitary man, a woman who has no idea what she's doing in the wilderness. "The Man of the Forest" was more of a fun romp through the wilderness, but "The Man of the Desert" had better theology - excepting the cringy parts.
I liked how thoroughly Christianity changed the characters' dispositions, that even with the bitter, painful things of life, they became sweet-natured and trusting in God. It's both a challenge to me - and I can't help but think cynically of my mom saying that Grace Livingston Hill's characters are all either too good or too bad. (My mom, however, has a very sweet nature. She's one of the ones whom faith and hardship have made sweeter.) It just seems that, in my life presently, there are so many older believers who have not gotten sweeter with time, but are bitter, cynical, prickly, gullible, disappointed, disillusioned, frustrated, even hard-hearted, especially in the realm of politics, but not limited to that. That is to say, they are hurting.
I probably shouldn't say that. I do know plenty of sweet older folks, too, even if we have to look for them. It's just an era in which it's hard not to be bitter and cynical, but probably people of every generation face that in some form or another. It's not really an excuse for me. I suppose I am just tired of cranky people, and becoming cranky myself because I am tired of them.
I loved how intimately and trustingly these characters prayed with God, and that is a challenge to me as well.
As to the cringy parts of this book, I find myself at a loss for words to describe them. I don't want to lessen them or belittle those who would be hurt by them, but I don't want to deny the richness in the rest of the story or have that goodness overshadowed by the bad. It's a fine line to walk and I'm not sure I'm up to the challenge. There were some descriptions which today's readers would find racist. Is there a way to keep the good but not the bad?
At one point, Hazel wondered why it was so important for the missionary to come to tell these people all that he had, "yet she saw in this man's face that it did matter, infinitely. To him it mattered more than anything else."
There are a multitude of opinions on missionaries and missionary trips, whether they be to bring humanitarian aid (clean water or food), or thoughtless harm to a community (where people become dependent upon such aid rather than developing their own economies, where children become too attached to short-term missionaries who inevitably leave, whether missionaries bring disease to people groups who haven't built up an immunity, whether people go to feel good about themselves going rather than to truly help those in need - and each arriving group ends up painting the same fence over again - and then there's the issue of further propagating the image of the "white savior", that is, of white people helping other races, portrayed as unable to help themselves.)
But beyond all those other disputes, some of which are serious charges, the real issue of missionaries is whether they convey a message that's worth all of that and worth all the contentions and worth all of the sacrifice to come and to give and to do. And I think that there is. It depends on whether or not Christianity is true. If not, then perhaps only humanitarian aid is worthwhile. But if Christianity is true, then all of the hardship and loss and sacrifice and hard work are also worthwhile if someone who didn't know Jesus could come to know Him in such a way that his sins are forgiven and that heaven, eventually, will be his home. That makes an eternal difference, not just a difference for this lifetime.
"For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." - 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, NIV
And, as with most of the romance genre, things develop much too quickly. Hazel and John really haven't had much time together, outside of a crisis, to know whether they truly get along and even whether they truly loved each other or whether it was adrenalin. (I read recently in Daniel Gilbert's "Stumbling on Happiness" that adrenalin can be confused with love, that, for some odd reason, people are more likely to think they are in love whenever they are at the edge of a literal precipice. They misread their rise in heart rate as arousal when really it's just fear of falling.)
Also, it was a little cringy in how helpless Hazel was, and in also that she was laughing at Amelia Ellen for the same helpless, overwhelmed feeling later on.
Favorite quotes:
"And sometimes, if it weren't for mother's letters, it would seem a long way from home."
"But he was a man of marked self-control." So few people today are.
"It was always her habit in any emergency to pray for Peter Burley." I loved that. I can identify with that. Sometimes I find it easier to pray for others than I can for myself or my immediate situation, until I calm down.
"So, when Brownleigh wished above all to be alone with his God and his sorrow, he had to lay aside his own bitter grief and console these childish people for their griefs. And in doing so he was comforted." Well, this would've been one of my favorite quotes, except for the word "childish" in there. They weren't being childish, just different. But yes, there is the longing to talk things over with God, and sometimes there is the comfort in comforting others.
"His future stretched out before his mind as endless and desolate as his desert. For now he couldn't see his beloved work and joy in serving - only himself alone, forsaken by all love, walking a sorrowful path apart. A great weakness, like a spirit in despair, surged over him." Well, obviously, that wasn't the end of the story, and things did change for him, but I liked that Grace Livingston Hill put such deep sorrow and bereavement in her works, rather than denying them. And yes, sometimes even such deep feelings of grief do eventually dissipate, at least somewhat.
My first impression of this book was that it reminded me of Zane Grey's "The Man of the Forest" - falling in love in the wild vastness of nature, a mostly-solitary man, a woman who has no idea what she's doing in the wilderness. "The Man of the Forest" was more of a fun romp through the wilderness, but "The Man of the Desert" had better theology - excepting the cringy parts.
I liked how thoroughly Christianity changed the characters' dispositions, that even with the bitter, painful things of life, they became sweet-natured and trusting in God. It's both a challenge to me - and I can't help but think cynically of my mom saying that Grace Livingston Hill's characters are all either too good or too bad. (My mom, however, has a very sweet nature. She's one of the ones whom faith and hardship have made sweeter.) It just seems that, in my life presently, there are so many older believers who have not gotten sweeter with time, but are bitter, cynical, prickly, gullible, disappointed, disillusioned, frustrated, even hard-hearted, especially in the realm of politics, but not limited to that. That is to say, they are hurting.
I probably shouldn't say that. I do know plenty of sweet older folks, too, even if we have to look for them. It's just an era in which it's hard not to be bitter and cynical, but probably people of every generation face that in some form or another. It's not really an excuse for me. I suppose I am just tired of cranky people, and becoming cranky myself because I am tired of them.
I loved how intimately and trustingly these characters prayed with God, and that is a challenge to me as well.
As to the cringy parts of this book, I find myself at a loss for words to describe them. I don't want to lessen them or belittle those who would be hurt by them, but I don't want to deny the richness in the rest of the story or have that goodness overshadowed by the bad. It's a fine line to walk and I'm not sure I'm up to the challenge. There were some descriptions which today's readers would find racist. Is there a way to keep the good but not the bad?
At one point, Hazel wondered why it was so important for the missionary to come to tell these people all that he had, "yet she saw in this man's face that it did matter, infinitely. To him it mattered more than anything else."
There are a multitude of opinions on missionaries and missionary trips, whether they be to bring humanitarian aid (clean water or food), or thoughtless harm to a community (where people become dependent upon such aid rather than developing their own economies, where children become too attached to short-term missionaries who inevitably leave, whether missionaries bring disease to people groups who haven't built up an immunity, whether people go to feel good about themselves going rather than to truly help those in need - and each arriving group ends up painting the same fence over again - and then there's the issue of further propagating the image of the "white savior", that is, of white people helping other races, portrayed as unable to help themselves.)
But beyond all those other disputes, some of which are serious charges, the real issue of missionaries is whether they convey a message that's worth all of that and worth all the contentions and worth all of the sacrifice to come and to give and to do. And I think that there is. It depends on whether or not Christianity is true. If not, then perhaps only humanitarian aid is worthwhile. But if Christianity is true, then all of the hardship and loss and sacrifice and hard work are also worthwhile if someone who didn't know Jesus could come to know Him in such a way that his sins are forgiven and that heaven, eventually, will be his home. That makes an eternal difference, not just a difference for this lifetime.
"For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." - 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, NIV
And, as with most of the romance genre, things develop much too quickly. Hazel and John really haven't had much time together, outside of a crisis, to know whether they truly get along and even whether they truly loved each other or whether it was adrenalin. (I read recently in Daniel Gilbert's "Stumbling on Happiness" that adrenalin can be confused with love, that, for some odd reason, people are more likely to think they are in love whenever they are at the edge of a literal precipice. They misread their rise in heart rate as arousal when really it's just fear of falling.)
Also, it was a little cringy in how helpless Hazel was, and in also that she was laughing at Amelia Ellen for the same helpless, overwhelmed feeling later on.
Favorite quotes:
"And sometimes, if it weren't for mother's letters, it would seem a long way from home."
"But he was a man of marked self-control." So few people today are.
"It was always her habit in any emergency to pray for Peter Burley." I loved that. I can identify with that. Sometimes I find it easier to pray for others than I can for myself or my immediate situation, until I calm down.
"So, when Brownleigh wished above all to be alone with his God and his sorrow, he had to lay aside his own bitter grief and console these childish people for their griefs. And in doing so he was comforted." Well, this would've been one of my favorite quotes, except for the word "childish" in there. They weren't being childish, just different. But yes, there is the longing to talk things over with God, and sometimes there is the comfort in comforting others.
"His future stretched out before his mind as endless and desolate as his desert. For now he couldn't see his beloved work and joy in serving - only himself alone, forsaken by all love, walking a sorrowful path apart. A great weakness, like a spirit in despair, surged over him." Well, obviously, that wasn't the end of the story, and things did change for him, but I liked that Grace Livingston Hill put such deep sorrow and bereavement in her works, rather than denying them. And yes, sometimes even such deep feelings of grief do eventually dissipate, at least somewhat.
August 2, 2016
I got this book a while ago - I believe it was free. I knew it was an "older classic" and classified as a Christian romance. It was written in 1914 and the thing is, i really liked it. About a missionary in the Arizona desert and a wealthy young woman who winds up on a runaway horse, lost in the desert and it is the missionary who finds her and brings her back to her family. It tells the story of love, faith, unworthiness, and worthiness. Love never changes with the passage of time. I was inspired and encouraged by Hazel and John's story. I would strongly recommend this book.
May 9, 2016
Sweet story
I have read many of GLH books over the years, and this is one of her best. She was a true pioneer of Christian fiction that gives a clear Gospel message. I met a lady who came to trust Christ as Savior through reading one of her books.
I have read many of GLH books over the years, and this is one of her best. She was a true pioneer of Christian fiction that gives a clear Gospel message. I met a lady who came to trust Christ as Savior through reading one of her books.
May 11, 2018
I read it a long time ago, so I can't remember how well I liked it, but I think most of GLH's books were okay, not great (though I used to like most of them a lot).
August 9, 2011
A sweet one! Quite classic GLH style. :) I'm borrowing my friend's Kindle, so I'm going through a lot of Kindle books right now.
September 12, 2011
Very good novel
March 11, 2012
Wonderful story! Draws you closer to God!
April 30, 2012
Great. Really exciting in some parts...
July 7, 2012
Typically sweet christian story.
March 13, 2013
Quick read, sweet story, simple plot line.
February 8, 2017
I loved this book! The characters were so real. I got to a certain point and couldn't put it down; ended up staying up till nearly 1 am.
April 10, 2014
Another of Hills western, adventure, romances with a Christian theme.
January 26, 2015
Another lovely book by hill
One of her tales of perseverance, trying to become something, and loving someone who is a long way away from you.
One of her tales of perseverance, trying to become something, and loving someone who is a long way away from you.
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June 24, 2015Another wonderful love story.
Even though Mrs. Hill wrote these books years ago. She captured the timeless emotions of all the ages. A wonderful book.
Even though Mrs. Hill wrote these books years ago. She captured the timeless emotions of all the ages. A wonderful book.
September 12, 2016
Yet another winner from this late master of Christian romance.
January 26, 2020
I think this is one of my favorite GLH novels. Hazel Radcliffe, daughter of a wealthy New Yorker, accompanies her family, including a guest of her father's, to the Arizona desert to look at a mine and see the country on horseback. Unknown to the father, the male guest is a lecher and as soon as he is alone with Hazel, he makes a move on her, prompting her to run from him. The horse runs away with her and she is soon lost in the desert, spending a terrified night alone with the unfamiliar sounds of the desert.
Meanwhile, a young missionary to the Arizona Indians, out canvassing his parish, finds evidence of Hazel's pell-mell flight through the desert and goes searching for her. When he finds her and rescues her, their hearts are knitted together. But the missionary knows that the petted child of wealth is no fit companion for him, unable to share in his mission and his hardships and his desolate life among the Indians. He pours out his heart to God, thinking that Hazel is asleep and cannot hear him, and wrestles with the idea that he loves her but that she is not fit for the life he has to offer her. However, she overhears him and it breaks her heart to know she is not worthy of a man whom she admires and loves. She makes a vow to become worthy of him and learn how to be a fit companion for him in his work.
I love that both of these characters practice self-denial and allow God to work in their lives, changing their hearts and minds and making them one even when they are separated by many miles and have no communication with each other.
Meanwhile, a young missionary to the Arizona Indians, out canvassing his parish, finds evidence of Hazel's pell-mell flight through the desert and goes searching for her. When he finds her and rescues her, their hearts are knitted together. But the missionary knows that the petted child of wealth is no fit companion for him, unable to share in his mission and his hardships and his desolate life among the Indians. He pours out his heart to God, thinking that Hazel is asleep and cannot hear him, and wrestles with the idea that he loves her but that she is not fit for the life he has to offer her. However, she overhears him and it breaks her heart to know she is not worthy of a man whom she admires and loves. She makes a vow to become worthy of him and learn how to be a fit companion for him in his work.
I love that both of these characters practice self-denial and allow God to work in their lives, changing their hearts and minds and making them one even when they are separated by many miles and have no communication with each other.
December 19, 2023
This was the perfect read/listen for over a couple of sick days. I really enjoyed this Grace Livingston Hill.
June 24, 2013
Although the storyline was clever and it was entertaining enough to entice me to read the entire book, there were several things about it that bothered me. The romantic plot in this story is reminiscent of other classic westerns, but I felt it was too idealistic. I like at least a touch of reality in my books, and the Hero in this book was too perfect. Also, Hill's description of Native Americans made me uncomfortable. Obviously, it is reflection of the common perception at the time it was written. As a result, I probably won't be reading any more G. L. Hill books.
June 19, 2016
I've read several GLH novels now, and most of them have had some religious element to them, but nothing distracting or over the top. This one was a bit more on the heavy handed side - I found myself skimming pages, because it just got too "preachy". The hero of the story is a missionary, so it wasn't totally out of place, but it was just painted on with a bit too heavy of a brush... Other than that, I enjoyed the story, as I have with all of her books. I will read more from her.
February 2, 2014
It dragged in the story quite of few times. The book is a quick easy read with a sweet message at times but it is pretty standard to Grace Livingstone Hill's writing. Good story, nothing too new or out there.
June 28, 2010
Cute story but just a different time and style.
April 22, 2012
Great read
November 9, 2013
Nice to take my brain to a sweeter and simpler story for a change. A Christian author I began reading as a young woman. I believe she broke ground for Christian romance books.
August 2, 2024
The first of Grace Livingston Hill’s Arizona Duology- “The Man in the Desert” is a romantic religious centered book of an unlikely pair that meets in the desert for a short time but it changes their lives. Another wonderful read and especially the early Arizona feel compared to modern day society. I wonder if book 2, will have the missionary noted.
Story in short- Without knowing her name, will missionary John Brownleigh ever see the girl he found and saved in the desert?
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Into the sunshine rode Hazel Radcliffe well content with the world, herself, and her escort.
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Milton Hamar was good company. He was keen of wit and a past-master in the delicate art of flattery. That he was fabulously wealthy and popular in New York society; that he was her father's friend both socially and financially, and had been much of late in their home on account of some vast mining enterprise in which both were interested; and that his wife was said to be uncongenial and always interested in other men rather than her husband, were all facts that combined to give Hazel a pleasant, half-romantic
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interest in the man by her side. She had been conscious of a sense of satisfaction and pleasant anticipation when her father told her that he was to be of their party. His wit and gallantry would make up for the necessity of having her Aunt Maria along. Aunt Maria was always a damper to anything she came near. She was the personification of propriety. She had tried to make Hazel think she must remain in the car and rest that day instead of going off on a wild goose chase after a mine. No lady did such things, she told her niece.
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"That will do for a while," he succumbed, smiling as he looked at her with impatient eyes. Then with growing intimacy in his tones he laid a detaining hand upon hers that held the bridle, and the horses both slackened their gait, though they had been far behind the rest of the party for over an hour now. "Listen, little girl," he said, "I'm going to open my heart to you. I'm going to tell you a secret."
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"Dear child!" said the man of the world impressively, "I knew you would be interested. Well, I will tell you. I have told you of my sorrow, now I will tell you of my joy. It is this: When I return to New York I shall be a free man. Everything is complete at last. I have been granted a divorce from Ellen, and there remain only a few technicalities to be attended to. Then we shall be free to go our ways and do as we choose." "A divorce!" gasped Hazel appalled. "Not you—divorced!"
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"Yes," affirmed the happy man gaily, "I knew you'd be surprised. It's almost too good to be true, isn't it, after all my trouble to get Ellen to consent?" "But she—your wife—where will she go? What will she do?" Hazel looked up at him with troubled eyes, half bewildered with the thought.
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"Oh, Ellen will be married at once," he answered flippantly. "That's the reason she's consented at last. She's going to marry Walling Stacy, you know, and from being stubborn about it, she's quite in a hurry to make any arrangement to fix things up now.
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I was so happy when John had found out that Hazel, the one he loved had been with his invalid mother till her death, since he could not leave his work and had an injury keeping him from traveling.
Hazel saw that her society life was pointless, it started with her father’s married friend trying to marry him after his divorce. Her father dying and after the solemn life that the society life left empty. After Mrs. Brownleigh’s death, Hazel had a letter to the son. John sees his beloved as his mother. They marry!
Story in short- Without knowing her name, will missionary John Brownleigh ever see the girl he found and saved in the desert?
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Into the sunshine rode Hazel Radcliffe well content with the world, herself, and her escort.
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Milton Hamar was good company. He was keen of wit and a past-master in the delicate art of flattery. That he was fabulously wealthy and popular in New York society; that he was her father's friend both socially and financially, and had been much of late in their home on account of some vast mining enterprise in which both were interested; and that his wife was said to be uncongenial and always interested in other men rather than her husband, were all facts that combined to give Hazel a pleasant, half-romantic
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interest in the man by her side. She had been conscious of a sense of satisfaction and pleasant anticipation when her father told her that he was to be of their party. His wit and gallantry would make up for the necessity of having her Aunt Maria along. Aunt Maria was always a damper to anything she came near. She was the personification of propriety. She had tried to make Hazel think she must remain in the car and rest that day instead of going off on a wild goose chase after a mine. No lady did such things, she told her niece.
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"That will do for a while," he succumbed, smiling as he looked at her with impatient eyes. Then with growing intimacy in his tones he laid a detaining hand upon hers that held the bridle, and the horses both slackened their gait, though they had been far behind the rest of the party for over an hour now. "Listen, little girl," he said, "I'm going to open my heart to you. I'm going to tell you a secret."
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"Dear child!" said the man of the world impressively, "I knew you would be interested. Well, I will tell you. I have told you of my sorrow, now I will tell you of my joy. It is this: When I return to New York I shall be a free man. Everything is complete at last. I have been granted a divorce from Ellen, and there remain only a few technicalities to be attended to. Then we shall be free to go our ways and do as we choose." "A divorce!" gasped Hazel appalled. "Not you—divorced!"
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"Yes," affirmed the happy man gaily, "I knew you'd be surprised. It's almost too good to be true, isn't it, after all my trouble to get Ellen to consent?" "But she—your wife—where will she go? What will she do?" Hazel looked up at him with troubled eyes, half bewildered with the thought.
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"Oh, Ellen will be married at once," he answered flippantly. "That's the reason she's consented at last. She's going to marry Walling Stacy, you know, and from being stubborn about it, she's quite in a hurry to make any arrangement to fix things up now.
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I was so happy when John had found out that Hazel, the one he loved had been with his invalid mother till her death, since he could not leave his work and had an injury keeping him from traveling.
Hazel saw that her society life was pointless, it started with her father’s married friend trying to marry him after his divorce. Her father dying and after the solemn life that the society life left empty. After Mrs. Brownleigh’s death, Hazel had a letter to the son. John sees his beloved as his mother. They marry!
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