Let young Haverley call his farm a ranch and rough it.

It would be the same thing.

I've backed him up strongly.

It's a manly choice of a manly life.

As for his sister, she has been so long at school that it will do her more good to stop than to go on." "It will be hard scratching," said the doctor, "to get a living out of Cobhurst, and I hope these young people will not come to grief while they are making the experiment." Miss Panney smiled without looking at her companion.
"Don't be afraid of that," she said presently; "I have pretty good reason to think that he will get on well enough." That evening Miriam sat up in bed with a shawl about her shoulders and discoursed to her brother.
"Now, Ralph," said she, "you must have seen a lot of things about our place, because, when I came to think of it, it was plain enough that you couldn't help it.