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In such manner did Matthias Meier and Amalia, the girl he would have married, begin the years of their living in the same new state, --the young man in the village that was to become a city, the girl on a homestead among her church people, --their lives as far apart as the vastness of the wild prairie which separated them.
Amalia now put away her love for Matthias, if indeed one can be said to put away anything which lies always in the next room into whose silences one may slip at any time for surcease from trouble.