`` I was only nine when he went away . He used to tease me -- I do remember that . '' There was a little resentment in her voice . Janet had never liked being teased . Avery laughed . `` You were so touchy , Janet . Touchy people always get teased . Bruce was very handsome -- and as nice as he was handsome . Those two years he was here were the nicest , gayest time I ever had . I wish he had stayed in Canada . But of course he would n't do that . His father was a rich man and Bruce was ambitious . Oh , Janet , I wish I could live in the old land . That would be life . '' Janet had heard all this before and could not understand it . She had no hankering for either Scotland or England . She loved the new land and its wild , virgin beauty . She yearned to the future , never to the past . `` I 'm tired of Burnley Beach , '' Avery went on passionately , shaking apples wildly off a laden bough by way of emphasis . `` I know all the people -- what they are -- what they can be .
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