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Herbert George De Lisser. Susan Proudleigh
Susan Proudleigh
Table of Contents
BOOK I
CHAPTER I. SUSAN’S DILEMMA
CHAPTER II. A PASSAGE-AT-ARMS
CHAPTER III. THE CASE IN COURT
CHAPTER IV. WHAT CAME OF THE CASE
CHAPTER V. LETITIA’S INVITATION
CHAPTER VI. SAMUEL JOSIAH JONES
CHAPTER VII. THE ANNOUNCEMENT
CHAPTER VIII. SUSAN GIVES “A JOKE”
CHAPTER IX. JONES IS WARNED
CHAPTER X “THE SWORD OF THE LORD”
BOOK II
CHAPTER I. THE LAND OF PROMISE
CHAPTER II. JONES CHANGES HIS MIND
CHAPTER III. SUSAN SETTLES DOWN
CHAPTER IV. THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT
CHAPTER V. THE SUBSCRIPTION PARTY
CHAPTER VI. JONES DEMONSTRATES
CHAPTER VII. SUSAN’S LAST EFFORT
BOOK III
CHAPTER I. THE FAMILY ARRIVES
CHAPTER II. CATHERINE LEARNS SOMETHING
CHAPTER III. THE MEETING
CHAPTER IV. THE NIGHT OF THE FIRE
CHAPTER V. THE ANONYMOUS LETTER
CHAPTER VI. SAMUEL’S DETERMINATION
CHAPTER VII. WHAT HAPPENED AT CULEBRA
CHAPTER VIII. SUSAN’S LUCK
CHAPTER IX. JONES SPEAKS IN THE PREDICATE
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Herbert George De Lisser
Published by Good Press, 2019
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“ ‘Vengeance is mine,’ ” quoted her aunt; “but there is a time for all things. An’ if y’u don’t teach a gurl like Maria a lesson, she will go far wid you.”
“She is a very rude young ooman!” exclaimed Mr. Proudleigh with indignation, following up his sister’s remark; he felt that he must lend his daughter his moral support. “Ef I was a younger man,” he went on, “I would … I would … well, I don’t know what I wouldn’t do! But Mother Smit is a dangerous female to interfere wid, and de cramps is troubling me in me foot so badly dat I wouldn’t like ’er to put ’er hand ’pon me at all.”
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