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Title: Mrs. Tree

Author: Laura E. Richards

Release Date: November 9, 2009 [EBook #30439]

Language: English

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[Illustration: MRS. TREE.]

MRS. TREE

By
Laura E. Richards

_Author of_
"Captain January," "Melody," "Marie," etc.

Boston
Dana Estes & Company
Publishers

_Copyright, 1902_
BY DANA ESTES & COMPANY

_All rights reserved_

MRS. TREE
Published June, 1902

Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

To
My Daughter Rosalind

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Wedding Bells 11

II. Phoebe's Opinions 25

III. Introducing Tommy Candy and Solomon, his Grandfather 41

IV. Old Friends 55

V. "But When He Was Yet a Great Way off" 75

VI. The New Postmaster 92

VII. In Miss Penny's Shop 107

VIII. A Tea-party 124

IX. A Garden-party 142

X. Mr. Butters Discourses 161

XI. Miss Phoebe Passes on 175

XII. The Peak in Darien 189

XIII. Life in Death 201

XIV. Tommy Candy, and the Letter He Brought 217

XV. Maria 233

XVI. Doctor Stedman's Patient 249

XVII. Not Yet! 267

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Mrs. Tree Frontispiece

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