Selina: Her Hopeful Efforts and Her Livelier Failures
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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"She referred to the cook, faithful and efficient colored plodder" 2
"Impeccable yard plots, whitened flaggings and steps" 6
"Each lady was sitting by her standing work-basket of cane" 10
"'His name was Aristides Welkin, and we called him Mr. Arry'" 21
"He held back the gate, too, for her to pass through" 30
"Mamma looked around the castor and spoke briskly" 57
"Before the mirror, trying on the dress from Cousin Anna" 70
"Mr. Tuttle Jones ... sat with her through a pianoforte number" 78
"Selina hurried out and joined him" 84
"The two groups had ... gone sauntering out the sycamore-bordered road" 94
"Rooted out his umbrella and tucked Amanthus, pretty thing, onto his arm" 118
"A covered wooden bridge across the river ... seemed older than anything else" 126
"Marcus was there when Selina arrived" 137
"She went to her father" 140
"Selina ... sat down to write her note" 144
"She ... stood looking at them grouped below" 159
"Miss 'Hontas came in ... and talked to her about many things" 168
"Her veil trailed crookedly" 188
"Owner and driver of a hack ... whereby he made a living, meeting trains" 192
"Endeavoring to fit a glass into his eye" 203
"Maud was going in for china painting" 220
"'Mr. Welling looked at me in that ... quizzing way of his'" 223
"They found Mrs. Harrison ... before the open fire" 230
"He... stumbled over a rug and slopped the cream" 240
"He below, lifting his hat" 254
"'You haven't spoken to Papa about it?'" 258
"Selina ... fell on her knees" 270
"They boarded the street car" 282
"Flowers take patience and faith, and tendance and waiting" 305
"She watched the flying scene from the car window" 321
"Culpepper ... leaned over the back of her chair and spoke softly to her" 344
"'More uplift, more culture is the cry of the moment'" 362
"For a full minute he did not speak" 373
"And whistled real softly under Juliette's window" 382
"Everybody waved and Culpepper was left standing there" 408
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