# The crow's-nest

Author: Duncan, Sara Jeannette, 1861-1922

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73588

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+crow%27s-nest+Duncan&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There is an attraction about carpets and curtains, chairs and sofas, and the mantelpiece which is hard to explain, and harder to resist. I feel it in all its insidious power this morning as I am bidding them farewell for a considerable time; I would not have believed that a venerable Axminster and an arm-chair on three casters could absorb and hold so much affection; verily I think, standing in the door, it was these things that made Lot’s wife turn her unlucky head. Dear me, how they enter in, how they grow to be part of us, these objects of ordinary use and comfort that we place within the four walls of the little shelters we build for ourselves on the fickle round o’ the world! I have...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-crow-s-nest-73588/chapters/19/index.md)