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The Bohemian Girl is a short story by Willa Cather. It was written when Cather was living in Cherry Valley, New York, with Isabelle McClung whilst ''Alexander's Bridge'' was being serialised in ''McClure's''.〔Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, University of Nebraska Press; Rev Ed edition, 1 Nov 1970, 'Introduction' by Mildred R. Bennett, page xxiv〕 It was first published in ''McClure's'' in August 1912.〔Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, University of Nebraska Press; Rev Ed edition, 1 Nov 1970, page 77〕 ==Plot summary== Nils Ericson gets off the train at his hometown. He gets a ride on a carriage to his family home, where his mother greets him after many years apart. He goes for a walk with his little brother Eric. The next day the two brothers talk about Lou Sandberg's suicide - Nils dismisses the old man for his folly. Nils visits Clara, who asks him if he has the second will his father did, bequeathing him some land. His mother drives him home and expresses her disapproval of Clara's father, for being a saloon-keeper. Later, Clara meets Nils outside the saloon; he tells her he came back to see her because he loves her. She gallops off. Sometime later, her father invites her and Nils along for wine and music. Later, at the Ericsons's barnraising, Nils follows Clara down in the cellar, then dances with her and says they should run away. As she is on her way back home from her father's one night, the two lovers run away. A year after their departure, Eric is on a train. He is supposed to take a ship in New York City and join his brother and Clara in Bergen - Nils has been corresponding with Joe. However, he decides to stop at Red Oak, Iowa and return home to his mother, as he doesn't want to leave her alone in the house. When he is back, she says she has been milking the cows instead of asking a local boy to do the job for her: she did not want people to talk. Mother and son are happily reunited. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Bohemian Girl (short story)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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