Sweethearts at Home

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Crockett Samuel Rutherford. Sweethearts at Home

THE EDITOR'S CHAPTERS. HE TELLS HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT

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SWEETHEART'S DIARY

I. SWEETHEART OBJECTS

II. PURPLE "THINKS"

III. PRESENTS

IV. MISS POLLY PRETEND

V. PRINCIPIA

VI. TORRES VEDRAS

VII. TORRES THE SECOND

VIII. HUGH JOHN'S PEOPLE

IX. THE NEW SHOP

X. NIPPER NEGLECTS HIS BUSINESS

XI. ELIZABETH

XII. FIGS AND FIG-LEAVES

XIII "UNTO US AS A DAUGHTER"

XIV. THE HARVEST FAIR

XV. QUIET DAYS

XVI. HUGH JOHN, AMBASSADOR PLENIPOTENTIARY

XVII. THE LITTLE GREEN MAN

XVIII. THE BEAD CURTAIN

XIX. THE DISCONTENT OF MRS. NIPPER DONNAN

XX. TREACHERY!

XXI. ADA WINTER AND "YOUNG MRS. WINTER"

XXII. AN EVENING CALL

XXIII. HONOR THY DAUGHTER!

XXIV. CISSY'S MEANNESS

XXV "NOT EVEN HUGH JOHN!"

XXVI. HAUNTS REVISITED

XXVII. SIR TOADY RELAPSES

XXVIII. TWICE-TRAVELED PATHS

XXIX. HOME-COMING

XXX. SOME DISCLAIMERS

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A sleepy Sunday morning – and no need for any one to go to church.

It was at Neuchâtel, under the trees by the lake, that I first became conscious of what wonderful assistance Sweetheart might be to me in my literary work. She corrected me as to the date upon which we had made our pilgrimage to Chaumont, as to the color of the hair of the pretty daughter of the innkeeper whom we had seen there – in her way quite a Swiss Elizabeth Fortinbras. In a word, I became aware that she had kept a diary. Sweetheart, like her nearest literary relative, began with "poetry." That was what we called it then. We have both revised our judgments since. Only Sweetheart has been more wise than I should have been at her age. She has resisted temptation, and rigorously ruled out all verse from the Diary as at present published! This is wonderful. I published mine.

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And he actually got his hat and walked home with Little Sarah, growling all the time. I don't know what he gave her. But, anyway, what he said to her mother made the poor woman so happy that she nearly forgot to be ill. And on Monday I noticed that Little Sarah had new whole shoes and so had her brother Billy. So something must have happened, and though nothing was said, I can pretty well guess what.

So can Hugh John – and you too, my dear Diary. Only we won't tell. But the "Compulsory Man," who makes boys attend school, descended on wicked Pete Bolton, and then the schoolmaster fell on him, so that Pete became a reformed character – this is, so long as he was sore. Then, of course, he forgot, and began playing truant again.

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