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Title: Country Neighbors
Author: Alice Brown
Release Date: February 7, 2008 [eBook #24540]
Language: English
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COUNTRY NEIGHBORS
by
ALICE BROWN
Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge 1910
Copyright, 1910, by Alice Brown
All Rights Reserved
Published April 1910
CONTENTS
THE PLAY HOUSE 1
HIS FIRST WIFE 20
A FLOWER OF APRIL 42
THE AUCTION 53
SATURDAY NIGHT 76
A GRIEF DEFERRED 96
THE CHALLENGE 122
PARTNERS 150
FLOWERS OF PARADISE 171
GARDENER JIM 192
THE SILVER TEA-SET 215
THE OTHER MRS. DILL 237
THE ADVOCATE 265
THE MASQUERADE 285
A POETESS IN SPRING 314
THE MASTER MINDS OF HISTORY 341
THE PLAY HOUSE
Amelia Maxwell sat by the front-chamber window of the great house
overlooking the road, and her own "story-an'-a-half" farther toward the
west. Every day she was alone under her own roof, save at the times when
old lady Knowles of the great house summoned her for work at fine sewing
or braiding rags. All Amelia's kin were dead. Now she was used to their
solemn absence, and sufficiently at one with her own humble way of life,
letting her few acres at the halves, and earning a dollar here and there
with her clever fingers. She was but little over forty, yet she was
aware that her life, in its keener phases, was already done. She had had
her romance and striven to forget it; but out of that time pathetic
voices now and then called to her, and old longings awoke, to breathe
for a moment and then sleep again.
Amelia seemed
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