Clever Betsy
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Clara Louise Burnham. Clever Betsy
CHAPTER I. OPENING THE COTTAGE
CHAPTER II. MISTRESS AND MAID
CHAPTER III. IRVING BRUCE
CHAPTER IV. MRS. POGRAM CONFIDES
CHAPTER V. ROSALIE VINCENT
CHAPTER VI. THE LAST STAGE
CHAPTER VII. THE NATIONAL PARK
CHAPTER VIII. THE BLONDE HEAVER
CHAPTER IX. THE FOUNTAIN HOUSE
CHAPTER X. ON THE RIVERSIDE
CHAPTER XI. FACE TO FACE
CHAPTER XII. THE FAITHFUL GEYSER
CHAPTER XIII. THE HEIRESS
CHAPTER XIV. THE LOOKOUT
CHAPTER XV. AN EXODUS
CHAPTER XVI. BETSY’S GIFT
CHAPTER XVII. SUNRISE
CHAPTER XVIII. HOMEWARD BOUND
CHAPTER XIX. MRS. BRUCE’S HEADACHE
CHAPTER XX. BETSY’S APPEAL
CHAPTER XXI. A RAINY EVENING
CHAPTER XXII. THE WHITE DOVE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE DANCE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE CLASH
CHAPTER XXV. WHITE SWEET PEAS
CHAPTER XXVI. IN BETSY’S ROOM
CHAPTER XXVII. BETSY RECEIVES
CHAPTER XXVIII. GOOD-BY, SUMMER
CHAPTER XXIX. THE NEW YEAR
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Mrs. Bruce remained with the captain at the gate for fifteen minutes longer before she re-entered the house. Hiram came as far as the door with her and laid the rug inside. He caught a glimpse of Betsy, stormily dusting and polishing in the living-room, but contented himself with touching his cap to Mrs. Bruce, and disappearing down the garden path.
That lady looked sharply at her factotum as she entered the room. Mankind loves a lover undoubtedly, as a rule; but there are exceptions. Mrs. Bruce decidedly did not love anybody who proposed to deprive her of her right hand: cook, waitress, lady’s maid, housekeeper, either of which posts Betsy was capable of filling in the defection of the regular incumbent.
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“He talked to me though,” the father had continued, “more like one man to another than like a child; but after being very civil about it, he announced that I mustn’t expect him to call her mother, because he should not be able to.”
Betsy had nodded. “Mr. Irving had a mother out of the ordinary, Mr. Bruce,” she replied very quietly, but with the hot blood pressing in her head; then she went up decorously to her room, closed the door, and indulged in one storm of weeping; after which she shouldered the cross above mentioned, which like all crosses heartily borne, lightened as the years went on.
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