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Title: Contrary Mary
Author: Temple Bailey
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CONTRARY MARY
by
TEMPLE BAILEY
Author of
Glory of Youth
Illustrations by Charles S. Corson
[Frontispiece: She flashed a quick glance at him.]
New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers
Copyright
1914 by
The Penn Publishing Company
First printing, December, 1914
Second printing, February, 1915
Third printing, March, 1915
Fourth printing, March, 1915
Fifth printing, April, 1915
Sixth printing, July, 1915
Seventh printing, November, 1915
To My Sister
Contents
CHAPTER I
In Which Silken Ladies Ascend One Stairway, and a Lonely Wayfarer
Ascends Another and Comes Face to Face with Old Friends.
CHAPTER II
In Which Rose-Leaves and Old Slippers Speed a Happy Pair; and in Which
Sweet and Twenty Speaks a New and Modern Language, and Gives a Reason
for Renting a Gentleman's Library.
CHAPTER III
In Which a Lonely Wayfarer Becomes Monarch of All He Surveys; and in
Which One Who Might Have Been Presented as the Hero of this Tale is
Forced, Through No Fault of His Own, to Take His Chances with the Rest.
CHAPTER IV
In Which a Little Bronze Boy Grins in the Dark; and in Which Mary
Forgets that There is Any One Else in the House.
CHAPTER V
In Which Roger Remembers a Face and Delilah Remembers a Voice; and in
Which a Poem and a Pussy Cat Play an Important Part.
CHAPTER VI
In Which Mary Brings Christmas to the Tower Rooms, and in Which Roger
Declines a Privilege for Which Porter Pleads.
CHAPTER VII
In Which Aunt F
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