Category: Romance
CHAPTER PAGE I. An Audacious Proposition 3 II. Measurements 12 III. Shopping with a Chaperon 17 IV. The Cost of Frocks 23 V. Muslins and Tackhammers 30 VI. A Question of Identity 36 VII. An Argument Without Logic 46 VIII. On Account of the Tea-Kettle 57 IX. A Bishop and a Hay-...
CHAPTER PAGE I. An Audacious Proposition 3 II. Measurements 12 III. Shopping with a Chaperon 17 IV. The Cost of Frocks 23 V. Muslins and Tackhammers 30 VI. A Question of Identit...
2. Chapter 2The selection of the furniture took perhaps the most time, and was the hardest, because of the difficulty of finding good styles in keeping with the limited purse. Anthony posse...
3. Chapter 3"That is an ancestor," Juliet explained. "Doesn't he give distinction to the room? And isn't the room--well--just a little bit distinguished-looking itself, in spite of its simp...
4. Chapter 4"Might have known they would do things up in shape somehow," grunted the Bishop's son approvingly. "This is the stuff. Conventionality be tabooed. They're going to the other ext...
5. Chapter 5Three men, standing about the wide fireplace, warming cold hands at its friendly blaze, turned expectantly as their youthful hostess came in, followed by a graceful girl in gray...
6. Chapter 6She stood looking at the rows of baskets upon the table, when the boy had placed them there and gone whistling away. She was in the midst of a flurry of work. It was Saturday, a...
7. Chapter 7"It's the first evening we've had to ourselves since the big snowdrift under the front windows melted. That was about the date Roger Barnes met Louis Lockwood here the first tim...
8. Chapter 8They were all upon the lawn--Rachel, unable to help herself, according to Anthony's intimation, the centre of a group of men who would not give each other a chance--when a stran...
9. Chapter 9"It's enough," said Carey, with the suppressed sigh which usually accompanied any allusion of his to Anthony's environment. "Dens are too stuffy, as a rule. Fellows try to see h...
10. Chapter 10"That might come," said Juliet softly. "I'm sure it would, Judith. As for Wayne, if you could see the look on his face I've surprised there more than once, when he had little An...
11. Chapter 11Smiling to herself, as if something gave her satisfaction, Juliet awaited the return of her hostess. She understood, from the manner of Judith's exit with the lamp, that the fre...
12. Chapter 12His face grew stern all at once, his eyes, though still kind, met his son's with determination. "Tony," he said very gravely--and there was a new quality in his tone to which th...
13. Chapter 13Juliet followed more slowly, thinking busily. Rachel had been very decided about going back into the city that night. Mrs. Huntington, Senior, was with friends, who had begged h...
14. Chapter 14A book rather out of the ordinary is this "Spirit of the Border." The main thread of the story has to do with the work of the Moravian missionaries in the Ohio Valley. Incidenta...