Fresh Leaves
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Fern Fanny. Fresh Leaves
PREFACE
A BUSINESS MAN’S HOME; OR, A STORY FOR HUSBANDS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
VISITING AND VISITORS
OUR FIRST NURSE
THE SHADOW OF A GREAT ROCK IN A WEARY LAND
TO LITERARY ASPIRANTS
SUMMER TRAVEL
A GENTLE HINT
A STORY FOR OLD HUSBANDS WITH YOUNG WIVES
BREAKFAST AT THE PAXES’
GIRLS’ BOARDING-SCHOOLS
CLOSET MEDITATIONS, NOT FOUND IN JAY OR DODDRIDGE
A FEMININE VIEW OF NAPOLEON AS A HUSBAND
“FIRST PURE.”
HOLIDAY THOUGHTS
A HEADACHE
HAS A MOTHER A RIGHT TO HER CHILDREN?
“AND YE SHALL CALL THE SABBATH A DELIGHT.”
“COME ON, MACDUFF.”
LOOK ALOFT
KNICKERBOCKER AND TRI-MOUNTAIN
THE BOSTON WOMAN
THE NEW YORK MALE
THE BOSTON MALE
MY OLD INK-STAND AND I; OR, THE FIRST ARTICLE IN THE NEW HOUSE
THE SOUL – AND THE STOMACH
AWE-FUL THOUGHTS
A WORD TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS
LADY DOCTORS
THE CHERUB IN THE OMNIBUS
FANNY FORD
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
MORAL MOLASSES; OR, TOO SWEET BY HALF
A WORD TO SHOP-KEEPERS
A MUCH-NEEDED KIND OF MINISTER’S WIFE; OR, A HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPE FOR SOME PARISH
PARENT AND CHILD; OR, WHICH SHALL RULE
THE LAST BACHELOR HOURS OF TOM PAX
TOM PAX’S LAST BACHELOR WILL AND TESTAMENT
TOM PAX’S CONJUGAL SOLILOQUY
TEA AND DARNING NEEDLES “FOR TWO!”
A HOUSE WITHOUT A BABY
GLANCES AT PHILADELPHIA. NUMBER ONE
GLANCES AT PHILADELPHIA. NUMBER TWO
GLANCES AT PHILADELPHIA. NUMBER THREE
GLANCES AT PHILADELPHIA. NUMBER FOUR
IN THE DUMPS
PEEPS FROM UNDER A PARASOL
THE CONFESSION BOX
A WORD TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS
BREAKFAST
GREENWOOD AND MOUNT AUBURN
GETTING UP THE WRONG WAY
A HOT DAY
FUNERAL NOTES
THE “FAVORITE” CHILD
A QUESTION, AND ITS ANSWER
WINTER
A GAUNTLET FOR THE MEN
SOLILOQUY OF A LITERARY HOUSEKEEPER
A BREAKFAST-TABLE REVERIE
A GLANCE AT A CHAMELEON SUBJECT
FACTS FOR UNJUST CRITICS
TRY AGAIN
FAIR PLAY. OR, BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY
TO GENTLEMEN. A CALL TO BE A HUSBAND
TO THE LADIES. A CALL TO BE A WIFE
MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS
A SABLE SUBJECT
NEW YORK
AIRY COSTUMES
A PEEP AT THE OPERA
HARD TIMES
COUNTER IRRITATION
SUNDAY IN GOTHAM
ANNIVERSARY TIME. MR. GOUGH AT THE OPERA HOUSE
WAYSIDE WORDS
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
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“There’s your father, children.”
The piano was immediately closed by the young performer, and the music-stool put carefully away, that the new-comer might have an unrestricted choice of seats; a wide space was immediately cleared before the grate which had been carefully replenished with coal but half an hour before; a stray cricket was hastily picked up and pushed beneath the sofa, and an anxious glance was thrown around the room by Mrs. Wade as her husband entered the room.
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So said Mary Hereford, Mr. Wade’s married daughter, as she picked up the toys, and picture-books, and strings, and marbles, with which her romping children had strewed her chamber floor.
Mary Hereford was no beauty. She had neither golden brown, nor raven hair; her skin was not transparently white, nor her eyes dazzlingly bright, nor her foot and hand miraculously small. She was simply a plump, healthy, rosy, cheerful little cricket of a woman – singing ever at her own hearth-stone – proud of her husband – proud of her children, knowing no weariness in their service. Many a beautiful woman has wrung her white hands in vain for the love which lent wings to this unhandsome, but still lovely little wife, dignified even the most common-place employment, and made her heart a temple for sweet and holy thoughts to gather.
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