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The Blue Castle.
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Kindred Spirits
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December 22, 2005
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I loved Muskoka so much that for once I forsook my dear Island and laid the scene in Ontario.
~My Dear Mr. M., Feb. 10, 1929
Barney knew the woods as a book and he taught their love and craft to Valancy ... Valancy learned the different fairy, likenesses of the mosses--the charm and exquisiteness of woodland blossoms.
~The Blue Castle
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... they went after water-lilies. Barney knew where to find the them in the creeks and bays of Mistawis. Then The Blue Castle was glorious with them, every receptacle that Valancy could contrive filled with the exquisite things.
~The Blue Castle
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The moonlight would ...