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Title: 'Lizbeth of the Dale

Author: Marian Keith

Release Date: March 1, 2009 [EBook #28234]

Language: English

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'LIZBETH

OF THE DALE

BY

MARIAN KEITH

_Author of "Treasure Valley," "Duncan Polite," "The Silver Maple," etc._

HODDER & STOUGHTON

NEW YORK

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

Copyright, 1910,

By GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE GAY GORDONS
II. THE WILD STREAK
III. A GENTEEL SABBATH
IV. AT THE EDGE OF THE DAWN
V. A ROYAL TITLE
VI. SCHOOLDAYS
VII. THE AGE OF CHIVALRY
VIII. A BUDDING ACTRESS
IX. THE FAIRY GOD-MOTHER ARRIVES
X. GREAT EXPECTATIONS
XI. THE DREAM OF LIFE
XII. LEFT BEHIND
XIII. GETTING INTO SOCIETY AND OUT
XIV. WHEN LIFE WAS BEAUTY
XV. WHAT OF THE NIGHT?
XVI. "THE MORNING COMETH"
XVII. DAWN CLOUDS
XVIII. DARKNESS
XIX. SUNRISE

'LIZBETH OF THE DALE

CHAPTER I

THE GAY GORDONS

On the side porch of the gray stone house sat Miss Gordon, steadily
darning at the eight pairs of stockings belonging to her eight nephews
and nieces. The strenuous task of being foster-mother to the eight had
long ago taught Miss Gordon the necessity of doing two things at once.
At the present moment she was attending to three beside the darning,
and had chosen her position with an eye to their accomplishment. Here,
where the Virginia creepers shaded her from the afternoon sun, she was
near enough to the wall enclosing the backyard to mark that the
Saturday raking and tidying of that battleground of the young Gordons
suffered no serious interruption. Also, she could watch that little
Jamie, tumbling about the grass in front of her, did not stray away to
the pond. And, best of all, she commanded a view of the lane leading
up to the highway, for a girl in a blue cotton gown and a big white hat
was moving up the path to the gate between the willows, and Miss