just the same…

 

 

“I do miss her,” he answered, and sighed again.

“Folks all kep’ repeatin’ that time would ease me,

    but I can’t find it does.

 No, I miss her just the same every day.”

 

Fisherman Elijah Tilley talks about his deceased wife, he calls her “poor dear,”

 

in Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels and Stories

by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

The Library of America

New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1994

p. 477

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