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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow. The Romance of a Plain Man
The Romance of a Plain Man
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
IN WHICH I APPEAR WITH FEW PRETENSIONS
CHAPTER II
THE ENCHANTED GARDEN
CHAPTER III
A PAIR OF RED SHOES
CHAPTER IV
IN WHICH I PLAY IN THE ENCHANTED GARDEN
CHAPTER V
IN WHICH I START IN LIFE
CHAPTER VI
CONCERNING CARROTS
CHAPTER VII
IN WHICH I MOUNT THE FIRST RUNG OF THE LADDER
CHAPTER VIII
IN WHICH MY EDUCATION BEGINS
CHAPTER IX
I LEARN A LITTLE LATIN AND A GREAT DEAL OF LIFE
CHAPTER X
IN WHICH I GROW UP
CHAPTER XI
IN WHICH I ENTER SOCIETY AND GET A FALL
CHAPTER XII
I WALK INTO THE COUNTRY AND MEET WITH AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XIII
IN WHICH I RUN AGAINST TRADITIONS
CHAPTER XIV
IN WHICH I TEST MY STRENGTH
CHAPTER XV
A MEETING IN THE ENCHANTED GARDEN
CHAPTER XVI
IN WHICH SALLY SPEAKS HER MIND
CHAPTER XVII
IN WHICH MY FORTUNES RISE
CHAPTER XVIII
THE PRINCIPLES OF MISS MATOACA
CHAPTER XIX
SHOWS THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE
CHAPTER XX
IN WHICH SOCIETY RECEIVES US
CHAPTER XXI
I AM THE WONDER OF THE HOUR
CHAPTER XXII
THE MAN AND THE CLASS
CHAPTER XXIII
IN WHICH I WALK ON THIN ICE
CHAPTER XXIV
IN WHICH I GO DOWN
CHAPTER XXV
WE FACE THE FACTS AND EACH OTHER
CHAPTER XXVI
THE RED FLAG AT THE GATE
CHAPTER XXVII
WE CLOSE THE DOOR BEHIND US
CHAPTER XXVIII
IN WHICH SALLY STOOPS
CHAPTER XXIX
IN WHICH WE RECEIVE VISITORS
CHAPTER XXX
IN WHICH SALLY PLANS
CHAPTER XXXI
THE DEEPEST SHADOW
CHAPTER XXXII
I COME TO THE SURFACE
CHAPTER XXXIII
THE GROWING DISTANCE
CHAPTER XXXIV
THE BLOW THAT CLEARS
CHAPTER XXXV
THE ULTIMATE CHOICE
Mr. JAMES LANE ALLEN'S NOVELS
The Choir Invisible
The Reign of Law. A Tale of the Kentucky Hempfields
The Mettle of the Pasture
Summer in Arcady. A Tale of Nature
Shorter Stories
Mr. F. MARION CRAWFORD'S NOVELS
Mr. Isaacs (India)
Greifenstein (The Black Forest)
Zoroaster (Persia)
The Witch of Prague (Bohemia)
Paul Patoff (Constantinople)
Marietta (Venice)
THE SARACINESCA SERIES. Saracinesca
Sant' Ilario. A Sequel to "Saracinesca"
Don Orsino. A Sequel to "Sant' Ilario"
Taquisara
Corleone
Casa Braccio. In two volumes Illustrated by A. Castaigne
The White Sister
NOVELS OF ROMAN SOCIAL LIFE. A Roman Singer
Marzio's Crucifix
Heart of Rome. A Tale of the Lost Water
Cecilia. A Story of Modern Rome
Whosoever Shall Offend
Pietro Ghisleri
To Leeward
A Lady of Rome. Via Crucis. A Romance of the Second Crusade
In the Palace of the King (Spain)
With the Immortals
Children of the King (Calabria)
A Cigarette Maker's Romance (Munich) Khaled, a Tale of Arabia
Arethusa (Constantinople)
A Tale of a Lonely Parish
Dr. Claudius. A True Story
An American Politician. The scenes are laid in Boston
The Three Fates
Marion Darche
Katharine Lauderdale. The Ralstons. A Sequel to "Katharine Lauderdale"
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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Published by Good Press, 2021
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As we drove on their voices grew gradually muffled and thin in my ears, and after a minute, in which I clung desperately to my eluding consciousness, my head dropped with a soft thud upon Mrs. Kidd's inviting bosom. The next instant I was jerked violently erect by my mother and ordered sternly to "keep my place an' not to make myself a nuisance by spreadin' about." With this admonition in my ears, I pinched my leg and sat staring with heavy eyes out upon the quiet street, where the rolling of the slow wheels over the fallen leaves was the only sound that disturbed the silence. After ten bitter years the city was still bound by the terrible lethargy which had immediately succeeded the war; and on Church Hill it seemed almost as if we had been forgotten like the breastworks and the battle-fields in the march of progress. The grip of poverty, which was fiercer than the grip of armies, still held us, and the few stately houses showed tenantless and abandoned in the midst of their ruined gardens. Sometimes I saw an old negress in a coloured turban come out upon one of the long porches and stare after us, her pipe in her mouth and her hollowed palm screening her eyes; and once a noisy group of young mulattoes emerged from an alley and followed us curiously for a few blocks along the sidewalk.
Withdrawing my gaze from the window, I looked enviously at Mrs. Boxley, who snored gently in her corner. Then for the second time sleep overpowered me, and in spite of my struggles, I sank again on Mrs. Kidd's bosom.
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