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Harriet Lummis Smith. Other People's Business: The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale
Other People's Business: The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCING PERSIS
CHAPTER II. THE LOVER
CHAPTER III. A FITTING
CHAPTER IV. THE WOMAN’S CLUB
CHAPTER V. DIANTHA GROWS UP
CHAPTER VI. THE NEW ARRIVAL
CHAPTER VII. A CONFIDENTIAL CHAT
CHAPTER VIII. EVE AND THE APPLE
CHAPTER IX. A DAY TO HERSELF
CHAPTER X. SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT
CHAPTER XI ’TWIXT THE CUP AND THE LIP
CHAPTER XII. A CONFESSION TOO MANY
CHAPTER XIII. THE MAIL BAG
CHAPTER XIV. AN ACQUISITION
CHAPTER XV. A WOMAN AT LAST
CHAPTER XVI. WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
CHAPTER XVII. ENID
CHAPTER XVIII. A STALLED ENGINE
CHAPTER XIX. A DEFERRED INTERMENT
CHAPTER XX. CHECKMATE
CHAPTER XXI. DE PROFUNDIS
CHAPTER XXII. EAVESDROPPING
CHAPTER XXIII. WEDDING BELLS
CHAPTER XXIV. FAIR PLAY
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Harriet Lummis Smith
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Again Persis proffered consolation. “I don’t think so. Annabel Sinclair’s what I call a feeble sinner. She reminds me of Joel when he was a little boy. He’d go down to the river, along in April when the water was ice-cold, and he’d get off his clothes and stand on the bank shivering. After his teeth had chattered an hour or so, mother’d come to look him up and Joel would get into his trousers and go home meek as a lamb. Well, Annabel’s the same way. She likes to shiver on the bank and think what a splash she’ll make when she goes in, but she hasn’t got the courage to risk a wetting, let alone drowning.”
Mrs. West, blinking through her tears, looked hard at her friend. “Seems to me you’re talking awful peculiar, Persis. ’Most as if you’d respect Annabel more if she was wickeder.”
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