We and Our Neighbors: or, The Records of an Unfashionable Street
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Stowe Harriet Beecher. We and Our Neighbors: or, The Records of an Unfashionable Street
CHAPTER I. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET
CHAPTER II. HOW WE BEGIN LIFE
CHAPTER III. THE FAMILY DICTATOR AT WORK
CHAPTER IV. EVA HENDERSON TO HARRY'S MOTHER
CHAPTER V. A TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT
CHAPTER VI. THE SETTLING OF THE WATERS
CHAPTER VII. LETTERS AND AIR-CASTLES
CHAPTER VIII. THE VANDERHEYDEN FORTRESS TAKEN
CHAPTER IX. JIM AND ALICE
CHAPTER X. MR. ST. JOHN
CHAPTER XI. AUNT MARIA CLEARS HER CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER XII. WHY CAN'T THEY LET US ALONE?
CHAPTER XIII. OUR "EVENING" PROJECTED
CHAPTER XIV. MR. ST. JOHN IS OUT-ARGUED
CHAPTER XV. GETTING READY TO BEGIN
CHAPTER XVI. THE MINISTER'S VISIT
CHAPTER XVII. OUR FIRST THURSDAY
CHAPTER XVIII. RAKING UP THE FIRE
CHAPTER XIX. A LOST SHEEP
CHAPTER XX. EVA TO HARRY'S MOTHER
CHAPTER XXI. BOLTON AND ST. JOHN
CHAPTER XXII. BOLTON TO CAROLINE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE SISTERS OF ST. BARNABAS
CHAPTER XXIV. EVA TO HARRY'S MOTHER
CHAPTER XXV. AUNT MARIA ENDEAVORS TO SET MATTERS RIGHT
CHAPTER XXVI. SHE STOOD OUTSIDE THE GATE
CHAPTER XXVII. ROUGH HANDLING OF SORE NERVES
CHAPTER XXVIII. REASON AND UNREASON
CHAPTER XXIX. AUNT MARIA FREES HER MIND
CHAPTER XXX. A DINNER ON WASHING DAY
CHAPTER XXXI. WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT
CHAPTER XXXII. A MISTRESS WITHOUT A MAID
CHAPTER XXXIII. A FOUR-FOOTED PRODIGAL
CHAPTER XXXIV. GOING TO THE BAD
CHAPTER XXXV. A SOUL IN PERIL
CHAPTER XXXVI. LOVE IN CHRISTMAS GREENS
CHAPTER XXXVII. THEREAFTER?
CHAPTER XXXVIII "WE MUST BE CAUTIOUS."
CHAPTER XXXIX. SAYS SHE TO HER NEIGHBOR – WHAT?
CHAPTER XL. THE ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
CHAPTER XLI. LETTER FROM EVA TO HARRY'S MOTHER
CHAPTER XLII. JIM'S FORTUNES
CHAPTER XLIII. A MIDNIGHT CAUCUS OVER THE COALS
CHAPTER XLIV. FLUCTUATIONS
CHAPTER XLV. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
CHAPTER XLVI. WHAT THEY ALL SAID ABOUT IT
CHAPTER XLVII "IN THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS."
CHAPTER XLVIII. THE PEARL CROSS
CHAPTER XLIX. THE UNPROTECTED FEMALE
CHAPTER L. EVA TO HARRY'S MOTHER
CHAPTER LI. THE HOUR AND THE WOMAN
CHAPTER LII. EVA'S CONSULTATIONS
CHAPTER LIII. WEDDING PRESENTS
CHAPTER LIV. MARRIED AND A'
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My Dear Belle: Well, here we are, Harry and I, all settled down to housekeeping quite like old folks. All is about done but the last things, – those little touches, and improvements, and alterations that go off into airy perspective. I believe it was Carlyle that talked about an "infinite shoe-black" whom all the world could not quite satisfy so but that there would always be a next thing in the distance. Well, perhaps it's going to be so in housekeeping, and I shall turn out an infinite housekeeper; for I find this little, low-studded, unfashionable home of ours, far off in a tabooed street, has kept all my energies brisk and busy for a month past, and still there are more worlds to conquer. Visions of certain brackets and lambrequins that are to adorn my spare chamber visit my pillow nightly, while Harry is placidly sleeping the sleep of the just. I have been unable to attain to them because I have been so busy with my parlor ivies and my Ward's case of ferns, and some perfectly seraphic hanging baskets, gorgeous with flowering nasturtiums that are now blooming in my windows. There is a dear little Quaker dove of a woman living in the next house to ours who is a perfect witch at gardening – a good kind of witch, you understand, one who could make a broomstick bud and blossom if she undertook it – and she has been my teacher and exemplar in these matters. Her parlor is a perfect bower, a drab dove's nest wreathed round with vines and all a-bloom with geraniums; and mine is coming on to look just like it. So you see all this has kept me ever so busy.
Then there are the family accounts to keep. You may think that isn't much for our little concern, but you would be amazed to find how much there is in it. You see, I have all my life concerned myself only with figures of speech and never gave a thought about figures of arithmetic or troubled my head as to where money came from, or went to; and when I married Harry I had a general idea that we were going to live with delightful economy. But it is astonishing how much all our simplicity costs, after all. My account-book is giving me a world of new ideas, and some pretty serious ones too.
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"Oh, come, don't you begin, Nelly – it's bad enough to have girls with their fancies. What we ought to look at are the solid excellences. What a pity that the marrying age always comes when girls have the least sense! John Delafield is a solid man, and if he should take a fancy to Alice, it would be a great piece of good luck. Alice ought to be careful, and not have these reports around, about her and Jim Fellows; it just keeps off advantageous offers. I shall talk to Alice the first time I get a chance."
"Oh, pray don't, Maria – I don't think it would do any good. Alice is very set in her way, and it might put her up to make something of it more than there is."
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