Home Lights and Shadows

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Arthur Timothy Shay. Home Lights and Shadows

PREFACE

RIGHTS AND WRONGS

THE HUMBLED PHARISEE

ROMANCE AND REALITY

BOTH TO BLAME

IT'S NONE OF MY BUSINESS

THE MOTHER'S PROMISE

THE TWO HUSBANDS

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

VISITING AS NEIGHBORS

NOT AT HOME

THE FATAL ERROR

FOLLOWING THE FASHIONS

A DOLLAR ON THE CONSCIENCE

AUNT MARY'S SUGGESTION

HELPING THE POOR

COMMON PEOPLE

MAKING A SENSATION

SOMETHING FOR A COLD

THE PORTRAIT

VERY POOR

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IT is a little singular—yet certainly true—that people who are very tenacious of their own rights, and prompt in maintaining them, usually have rather vague notions touching the rights of others. Like the too eager merchant, in securing their own, they are very apt to get a little more than belongs to them.

Mrs. Barbara Uhler presented a notable instance of this. We cannot exactly class her with the "strong-minded" women of the day. But she had quite a leaning in that direction; and if not very strong-minded herself, was so unfortunate as to number among her intimate friends two or three ladies who had a fair title to the distinction.

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"But suppose they are incompetent? What then?" Mrs. Uhler was very earnest.

"That doesn't in the least alter my character and position." Mr. Uhler looked his wife fixedly in the face for some moments after saying this, and then retired from the house without further remark.

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