The Crux: A Novel

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Gilman Charlotte Perkins. The Crux: A Novel

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. THE BACK WAY

CHAPTER II. BAINVILLE EFFECTS

CHAPTER III. THE OUTBREAK

CHAPTER IV. TRANSPLANTED

CHAPTER V. CONTRASTS

CHAPTER VI. NEW FRIENDS AND OLD

CHAPTER VII. SIDE LIGHTS

CHAPTER VIII. A MIXTURE

CHAPTER IX. CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER X. DETERMINATION

CHAPTER XI. THEREAFTER

CHAPTER XII. ACHIEVEMENTS

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The "Foote Girls" were bustling along Margate Street with an air of united purpose that was unusual with them. Miss Rebecca wore her black silk cloak, by which it might be seen that "a call" was toward. Miss Jessie, the thin sister, and Miss Sallie, the fat one, were more hastily attired. They were persons of less impressiveness than Miss Rebecca, as was tacitly admitted by their more familiar nicknames, a concession never made by the older sister.

Even Miss Rebecca was hurrying a little, for her, but the others were swifter and more impatient.

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"That's true enough – I might as well admit that."

"Oh, Morton! – I didn't believe it. Expelled!"

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