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in a style of their own, here and there reminding one a little of Hawthorne in his most elusive vein, or Turgenief in his romantic tales. It is as if a folk-tale method were elaborated with literary art, inclining to the imaginative side of everyday life, yet dwelling fondly on the human folk it portrayed.