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George Barr McCutcheon. Quill's Window
Quill's Window
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I—THE FORBIDDEN ROCK
CHAPTER II—THE STORY THE OLD MAN TOLD
CHAPTER III—COURTNEY THANE
CHAPTER IV—DOWD'S TAVERN
CHAPTER V—TRESPASS
CHAPTER VI—CHARLIE WEBSTER ENTERTAINS
CHAPTER VII—COURTNEY APPEARS IN PUBLIC
CHAPTER VIII—ALIX THE THIRD
CHAPTER IX—A MID-OCTOBER DAY
DEAR ALIX:
DAVID
CHAPTER X—THE CHIMNEY CORNER
CHAPTER XI—THANE VISITS TWO HOUSES
DEAR DAVID:
ALIX CROWN
CHAPTER XII—WORDS AND LETTEBS
DEAR ALIX:
DAVID
DEAR DAVID:
ALIX CROWN
DEAREST MATER:
COURTNEY
C
CHAPTER XIII—THE OLD INDIAN TRAIL
CHAPTER XIV—SUSPICION
ADDISON BLYTHE
CHAPTER XV—THE FACE AT THE WINDOW
CHAPTER XVI—ROSABEL
CHAPTER XVII—SHADOWS
CHAPTER XVIII—MR. GILFILLAN IS PUZZLED
DEAREST ALIX:
DAVID
CHAPTER XIX—BRINGING UP THE PAST
MY DEAR NIECE:
CHAPTER XX—THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ROSABEL VICK
CHAPTER XXI—OUT OF THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XXII—THE THROWER OF STONES
CHAPTER XXIII—A MESSAGE AND ITS ANSWER
DEAR ALIX:
DAVID
D
DEAREST DAVID:
ALIX
CHAPTER XXIV—AT QUILL'S WINDOW
THE END
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George Barr McCutcheon
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The women did not like her. She was not one of them and never could be one of them. Her "hired girls" became "servants" the day she entered the ugly old farmhouse on the ridge. They were no longer considered members of the family; they were made to feel something they had never felt before in their lives: that they were not their mistress's equals.
The "hired girl" of those days was an institution. As a rule, she moved in the same social circle as the lady of the house and it was customary for her to intimately address her mistress by her Christian name. She enjoyed the right to engage in all conversations; she was, in short, "as good as anybody." The new Mrs. Windom was not long in transporting the general housework "girl" into a totally unexampled state of astonishment. This "girl,"—aged forty-five and a prominent member of the Methodist Church—announced to everybody in the community except to Mrs. Windom herself that she was going to leave. She did not leave. The calm serenity of the new mistress prevailed, even over the time-honoured independence in which the "girl" and her kind unconsciously gloried. Respect succeeded injury, and before the bride had been in the Windom house a month, Maria Bliss was telling the other "hired girls" of the neighbourhood that she wouldn't trade places with them for anything in the world.
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