Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People'

Patchwork: A Story of 'The Plain People' is a novel written by Anna Balmer Myers, an American author of romantic novels featuring the local color of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

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Maria Metz was, at fifty, robust and comely, with black hair very slightly streaked with gray, cheeks that retained traces of the rosy coloring of her girlhood, and flashing black eyes meeting squarely the looks of all with whom she came in contact. She was a member of the Church of the Brethren and wore the quaint garb adopted by the women of that sect. Her dress of black calico was perfectly plain.