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Chapter 13

           Furnitureofbothanearlierandalaterdate,butallinasomewhatdecayedcondition,intermingledandfurnisheditinsomenondescriptmannerwhichneedhardlybedescribed.

           AsfortheparentsofRoberta,theywereexcellentexamplesofthatnativetypeofAmericanismwhichresistsfactsandreveresillusion.TitusAldenwasoneofthatvastcompanyofindividualswhoareborn,passthroughanddieoutoftheworldwithouteverquitegettinganyonethingstraight.Theyappear,blunder,andendinafog.Likehistwobrothers,botholderandalmostasnebulous,Tituswasafarmersolelybecausehisfatherhadbeenafarmer.Andhewashereonthisfarmbecauseithadbeenwilledtohimandbecauseitwaseasiertostayhereandtrytoworkthisthanitwastogoelsewhere.HewasaRepublicanbecausehisfatherbeforehimwasaRepublicanandbecausethiscountywasRepublican.Itneveroccurredtohimtobeotherwise.And,asinthecaseofhispoliticsandhisreligion,hehadborrowedallhisnotionsofwhatwasrightandwrongfromthoseabouthim.Asingle,serious,intelligentorrightlyinformingbookhadneverbeenreadbyanymemberofthisfamilynotone.Buttheywereneverthelessexcellent,asconventions,moralsandreligionsgohonest,upright,God-fearingandrespectable.

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