In Wild Rose Time

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Douglas Amanda M.. In Wild Rose Time

I – A HANDFUL OF ROSES

II – SATURDAY AFTERNOON

III – THE WAY TO HEAVEN

IV – THE DELIGHTS OF WEALTH

V – A SONG IN THE NIGHT

VI – A WONDERFUL STORY

VII – MARTYRED CHRISTIANA

VIII – BESS

IX – DILSEY

X – IN THE DESERT ALONE

XI – WHEN HE AND SUMMER COMES

XII – THE RESPONSE OF PINING EYES

XIII – THE LAND OF PURE DELIGHT

XIV – VIRGINIA DEERING

XV – JOHN TRAVIS

XVI – ACROSS THE RIVER

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The boys waited until they were sure their mother was having her evening treat. Mrs. MacBride’s was a very fascinating place, a sort of woman’s club-house, with a sprinkling of men to make things merry. Decent, too, as drinking-places go. No dancing girls, but now and then a rather broad joke, and a song that would not appeal to a highly cultivated taste. There was plenty of gossip, but the hours were not long.

Dil washed up the dishes, dumped the stove-grate, and took the ashes out to the box. Then she swept up the room and set the table, and her day’s work was done.

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The children’s faces were not only a study, but a revelation. John Travis thought he had never seen anything so wonderful. If a man could put such life in every feature, such exquisite bewilderment!

“What is a robin?” asked Bess, her face all alight with eagerness.

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