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Deephaven Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett: Context & Meanings

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Sarah Orne Jewett’s 1877 Deephaven, represented within the Gutenberg edition Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches

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Community, friendship, local history, storytelling, hospitality, kindness and coastal New England social observation.

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Communication 1Community 1Compassion 1Friendship 1Helping Others 1Humanity 1Kindness 1Relationship 1Service 1Short 1Thought-Provoking Quotes That Invite Reflection 1Trust 1Listening 1
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There was no end either to her stories or her kindness.
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“There was no end either to her stories or her kindness.”

Sarah Orne Jewett
Voice: Fictional narrator · First-person narrator
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The narrator joins generosity and storytelling in one portrait, suggesting that attention, memory and hospitality can be experienced together as forms of kindness.

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Deephaven, represented within Project Gutenberg #15985, Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches. The first-person visiting narrator is characterizing a local woman after extended conversation; it is fictional/regional narration rather than Jewett autobiography.

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