The Romance of a Plain Man
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Glasgow Ellen Anderson Gholson. The Romance of a Plain Man
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
Mr. F. MARION CRAWFORD'S NOVELS
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The funeral was not until nine o'clock, but at seven my mother served us a cold breakfast in order, as she said, that she might get the dishes washed and the house tidied before we started. Gathering about the bare table, we ate our dismal meal in a depressed silence, while she bustled back and forth from the kitchen in her holiday attire, which consisted of a stiff black bombazine dress and the long rustling crape veil she had first put on at the death of her uncle Benjamin, some twenty years before. As her only outings were those occasioned by the deaths of her neighbours, I suppose her costume was quite as appropriate as it seemed to my childish eyes. Certainly, as she appeared before me in her hard, shiny, very full bombazine skirt and attenuated bodice, I regarded her with a reverence which her everyday calico had never inspired.
"I ain't et a mouthful an' I doubt if I'll have time to befo' we start," she was saying in an irritable voice, as I settled into my bib and my chair. "Anybody might have thought I'd be allowed to attend a funeral in peace, but I shan't be, – no, not even when it comes to my own."
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"But I want to go," I responded selfishly, wide awake at the prospect. "I want to see the old Adams house where the little girl lives."
"If you go I can't play checkers, an' it's downright mean. What do you care about little girls? They ain't any good."
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