Her hospitality was something exquisite; she had the gift which so many women lack, of being able to make themselves and their houses belong entirely… - Sarah Orne Jewett

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Her hospitality was something exquisite; she had the gift which so many women lack, of being able to make themselves and their houses belong entirely to a guest's pleasure, — that charming surrender for the moment of themselves and whatever belongs to them, so that they make a part of one's own life that can never be forgotten.

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About Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American author and poet whose works were primarily set in her native New England.

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Birth Name: Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett
Alternative Names: Sara Orne Jewett Sara Jewett Sarah O. Jewett
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I took new pleasure in the thought that in a piece of wild pasture land like this one may get closest to Nature, and subsist upon what she gives of her own free will. There have been no drudging, heavy-shod ploughmen to overturn the soil, and vex it into yielding artificial crops. Here one has to take just what Nature is pleased to give, whether one is a yellow-bird or a human being.

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