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One heard a lady passenger remark on the loneliness of the aspect as the coach passed some hut or Cottage standing back from the little- frequented road. "If I had to live in a place like that I'd die," she declared.
The loneliness didn't trouble the settler much, though the want of communion with other women made it a little hard for his wife. Still the country bred woman found the noisy city much more distasteful. There are people who cannot be happy away from the bustle of city streets; there are others who can find happiness only in the quiet of the bush. So the lone cottage is not always planted where it is because the people cannot afford to live in closer contact with their kind. City people, judging their country cousins by their own ideals, waste a lot of sympathy in this respect.