There 's work for our philanthropists here , but they do n't seem to see it . Well , I 'm so sorry for them it hurts me to look at them , but I ca n't do anything . '' Miss Cordelia sighed and then brightened up , because she realized that she was turning her back upon Pottstown for two blissful days and going to Point Pleasant , which had just one straggling , elm-shaded street hedging on old-fashioned gardens and cosy little houses and trailing off into the real country in a half-hour 's walk . Miss Cordelia lived alone in a tiny house at Point Pleasant . It was so tiny that you would have wondered how anyone could live in it . `` But it 's plenty big for a little old maid like me , '' Miss Cordelia would have told you . `` And it 's my own -- I 'm queen there . There 's solid comfort in having one spot for your own self . To be sure , if I had less land and more house it would be better . '' Miss Cordelia always laughed here . It was one of her jokes . There was a four-acre field behind the house . Both had been left to her by an uncle . The field was of no use to Miss Cordelia ; she did n't keep a cow and she had n't time to make a garden . But she liked her field ; when people asked her why she did n't sell it she said : `` I 'm fond of it . I like to walk around in it when the grass grows long . And it may come in handy some time . Mother used to say if you kept anything seven years it would come to use . I 've had my field a good bit longer than that , but maybe the time will come yet . Meanwhile I rejoice in the fact that I am a landed proprietor to the extent of four acres . ''
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