Clever Betsy

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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