Can you guess from the ending the title of the early American 20th century novel published in 1911:
She took off her spectacles again, leaned toward me across the bead-work table-cover, and went on with lowered voice: "There was one day, about a week after the accident, when they all thought Mattie couldn't live. Well, I say it's a pity she did. I said it right out to our minister once, and he was shocked at me. Only he wasn't with me that morning when she first came to... And I say, if she'd ha' died, Ethan might ha' lived; and the way they are now, I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard; 'cept that down there they're all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues."
No hints needed.
maryt
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Dear Mary,
That's from "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton!
(I've never read this novel, but the names in the ending give it away.)
Hmmmm ... which novel will I pick next?
Leon
That's why I said no hints needed! Hah!
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