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Clara Morris. A Pasteboard Crown
A Pasteboard Crown
Table of Contents
CROWN
CHAPTER I
THE LAWTONS ARRIVE
CHAPTER II
A POWERFUL NEIGHBOR
CHAPTER III
SHOPPING UNDER DIFFICULTIES
CHAPTER IV
AN ACQUAINTANCE RENEWED
CHAPTER V
"THE WOMAN OF FATE"
CHAPTER VI
A RECOGNITION AND A DINNER
CHAPTER VII
A PRAYER AND A PROMISE
CHAPTER VIII
"TELL HER YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION"
CHAPTER IX
THE ACCIDENT—A FRIEND IN NEED
CHAPTER X
CALLING ON THE MANAGER
CHAPTER XI
THE DOUBLE BIRTHDAY
CHAPTER XII
THE PROMISED CROWN
CHAPTER XIII
THE FORMING OF THE CHRYSALIS
CHAPTER XIV
THE RETURN FROM THE WEST
CHAPTER XV
MRS. LAWTON LAYS PLANS
CHAPTER XVI
A STRANGE BETROTHAL
CHAPTER XVII
THE COSTUMING OF JULIET
CHAPTER XVIII
A LOVER'S PLEA
CHAPTER XIX
A FAMILY SCENE
CHAPTER XX
A PROFESSIONAL LESSON
CHAPTER XXI
SEEKING REFUGE FROM THE STORM
CHAPTER XXII
PREPARING THE PIT
CHAPTER XXIII
THE WOMAN IN THE BOX
CHAPTER XXIV
"I WILL NOT DIVORCE YOU"
CHAPTER XXV
"TO LOVE IS TO FORGIVE"
CHAPTER XXVI
THE OPAL
CHAPTER XXVII
THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN
CHAPTER XXVIII
"THOU KNOWEST!"
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Clara Morris
A Story of the New York Stage
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But the gates of this shopping Paradise were closed against the Lawtons, and Sybil and Dorothy, like two made-over, rebound, cotton-backed little Peris, stood and wept as they shook vainly at the bars. Mr. Lawton had in all good faith offered to go to the city and do their errands for them, but his services had been promptly declined, though with many qualifying pats and strokes from Sybil and a violet boutonnière from Dorothy, who had remarked, as she tied it with a blade of grass: "Poor papa—he would come home with barely half the list filled."
"Worse than that," said Sybil. "Poor papa would have come home plucked bare to his innocent old breast."
