Category: Novels
Pegeen
John Archibald turned from his easel, eyed the intruder with amazement, faintly tinged with alarm, and thought of laughing—but did not laugh. She was such a mere wisp of a child and so profoundly serious.
Chapters
1. Part 1
John Archibald turned from his easel, eyed the intruder with amazement, faintly tinged with alarm, and thought of laughing—but did not laugh. She was such a mere wisp of a child...
2. Part 2“Oh, she dragged around, getting weaker and weaker and thinner and thinner and whiter and whiter. I’ll say one thing for O’Neill. He never beat her—not even when he was drunk. H...
3. Part 3She had a curious way of making one feel welcome without bothering to put the thing into words. Archibald remembered that it had been the same when he had found her in the birch...
4. Part 4The grin on the boy’s face widened to show more of his white teeth. There was something refreshingly wholesome about the soundness and whiteness of those teeth, the amplitude of...
5. Part 5“Was it perfect, Peggy? Not a cloud? Such a duck of a frock, dear! And the hat! _Oh, sweet!_ The very hat of hats for you. Darling wee roses and a heavenly pink, and so becoming...
6. Part 6“My poppies down at Miss Moran’s were nice too,” she went on, “but I was awfully disappointed about my larkspur. It didn’t bloom a bit that summer, and Miss Moran had said it wo...
7. Part 7“I think most people have a horrid idea about souls, don’t you?” she said. “Sort of foggy, lonesome things that go floating around trying to be happy when they haven’t got anyth...
8. Part 8“It’s a heavenly sweet place to sit on a summer’s day, weaving spells, isn’t it? They say she was old and ugly, but I think that was only when she went down among the Valley fol...
9. Part 9“I sort of think he was a good looking little boy,” she said. “His nose is straight and nice and his mouth could have been real sweet if he hadn’t spoiled it. I shouldn’t wonder...
10. Part 10“No; I suppose not,” she agreed. “It’d be an awfully long time and he’d be as old as anything. Well, anyway, he isn’t keeping company with anybody now; and when he does go off a...
11. Part 11“No; that’s wrong. It’s fairer to Ezra to let him do the generous thing for love of Peg. It’d be a pity to let his first fine sentiment be still-born. Yes; on the whole, I belie...
12. Part 12There was a ring of pride in the jesting voice, a glow of pride in the smiling face. Richard Meredith, watching her from the hammock, noticed both. She was glad for the Valley,...
13. Part 13Most of the action of this story takes place near the turbulent Mexican border of the present day. A New York society girl buys a ranch which becomes the center of frontier warf...