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The man who goes “Back to nature” to rejuvenate himself, succeeding “without either the morbid egotism or illusive susceptibility” of his teens, keeps a diary. It is this from-day-to-day record that tells of his farm occupations, of the shortcomings of Joseph, his man-of-all-work, and of the garrulity of Mrs. Biggles, his housekeeper. In tales of this kind the Ponce de Leon quest is never unaccompanied with a romance. Olivia Humphrey is near by, is engaging, is a musician. The wooing is natural even to the prosaic.
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