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Grace S. Richmond. Red Pepper Burns
Red Pepper Burns
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. IN WHICH HE VOWS A VOW
CHAPTER II. IN WHICH HE CREATES A CIRCUS
CHAPTER III. IN WHICH HE ASSUMES A RESPONSIBILITY
CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH HE MAKES A CONCESSION
CHAPTER V. IN WHICH HE IS ROUGH ON A FRIEND
CHAPTER VI. IN WHICH HE PRESCRIBES FOR HIMSELF
CHAPTER VII. IN WHICH HE CONTINUES TO SAW WOOD
CHAPTER VIII. IN WHICH HE IS UNREASONABLY PREOCCUPIED
CHAPTER IX. IN WHICH HE SUFFERS A DEFEAT
CHAPTER X. IN WHICH HE PROVES HIMSELF A HOST
CHAPTER XI. IN WHICH HE GETS EVEN WITH HIMSELF
CHAPTER XII. IN WHICH HE HAS HIS OWN WAY
CHAPTER XIII. IN WHICH HE MAKES NO EVENING CALL
CHAPTER XIV. IN WHICH HE DEFIES SUPERSTITION
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Grace S. Richmond
Published by Good Press, 2019
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He caught her hand. Flushing so that her plain face became almost pretty, she yielded—for the hand was insistent. Miss Ellen leaned bewildered against the door which led to the sitting-room where the old piano stood. Her nephew looked at her again, with the eyes which the Chesters' guest had somewhat incoherently described as “Irish-Scotch-barbarian.” He said, “Please, Aunt Ellen, there's a good fellow,” at which Mr. Burns, Senior, chuckled under his breath; for anything less like that of a “good fellow” was never seen than Sister Ellen's prim little personality. Miss Ellen went protestingly to the piano. Was it right, her manner said, to be performing in this idiotic manner at this unholy hour of three o'clock in the morning—in a sick-room?
It mattered little whether Miss Mathewson could or could not dance the “Irish Washerwoman,” or any other antic dance improvised to that live air; she had only to yield herself to Red Pepper Burns's hands and steps, and let him disport himself around her. A most startlingly hilarious performance was immediately and effectively produced. At the height of it, a door across the sitting-room, which commanded a strip of the bedroom beyond, opened cautiously and Zeke Crandall's eye glued itself to the aperture, an eye astonished beyond belief.
