The Carcellini Emerald, With Other Tales

The Carcellini Emerald, With Other Tales
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Burton Mrs. Harrison. The Carcellini Emerald, With Other Tales

The Carcellini Emerald, With Other Tales

Table of Contents

I

II

III

IV

AN AUTHOR’S READING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

LEANDER OF BETSY’S PRIDE

THE THREE MISSES BENEDICT AT YALE

II

III

IV

A GIRL OF THE PERIOD

THE STOLEN STRADIVARIUS

II

III

WANTED: A CHAPERON

PART II

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Burton Mrs. Harrison

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Tom, during most of these early years a bird of passage between different headquarters of the railway that had annexed his services, was rarely in New York. When occasionally he had fallen in with some of his old college-mates they had dined and talked together till well into next morning, and word was passed along the line of alumni of their year to this effect: “Tom is all there, every inch of him”; “The same glorious old fellow”; “True as steel”; “Deserves his luck in business”; and the like.

But except for these banquets of good-fellowship, Tom had almost dropped out of conventional society, until Eunice Farnsworth at last coaxed him to make her a little visit and take a peep into the world that he had eschewed. It would do him good, she urged, to see some of the pretty girls and lively matrons who would be present at, for instance, a dinner to be given by Mr. Farnsworth’s cousin, Mrs. Ellison, in honor of her daughter’s coming out. Mrs. Ellison, rather a foolish woman Eunice must admit, would be charmed to extend an invitation to him at their request. It was to be a large affair of thirty guests, and Eunice wanted people to see her big handsome brother. “For you are the pride of my heart, Tom; and I don’t care who knows it,” she added, so genuinely that Tom was brought into prompt submission to her will, and promised coöperation in her schemes.

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