# The aristocrats

Author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72957

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+aristocrats+Atherton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I am on top of a mountain by a lake, with other mountains towering irregularly in all directions; a primeval wilderness, in fact, for every mountain is covered with a dense forest, and we reached our lake by an ascent up an almost perpendicular “corduroy” road--made of logs. Agatha and I walked most of the time, for the way the horses stumbled and strained was appalling. Of course poor Bertie had to stay in the “buckboard”--a sort of box on wheels without springs--and stand the terrible jolting; but I think the unique experience diverted him and he would have enjoyed it rather if it had not been for the poor horses. I could not look at them, and lingered some distance behind and stared in...

## Chapters

- [Letter VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aristocrats-72957/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Letter III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aristocrats-72957/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Letter X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aristocrats-72957/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Letter VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aristocrats-72957/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Letter IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aristocrats-72957/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Letter IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aristocrats-72957/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Letter V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aristocrats-72957/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Letter VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aristocrats-72957/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Letter II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aristocrats-72957/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Letter I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aristocrats-72957/chapters/1/index.md)
- [book I certainly shall put it in.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aristocrats-72957/chapters/8/index.md)