The Daughter of the Storage

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Howells William Dean. The Daughter of the Storage

THE DAUGHTER OF THE STORAGE

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II. A PRESENTIMENT

III. CAPTAIN DUNLEVY'S LAST TRIP

IV. THE RETURN TO FAVOR

V. SOMEBODY'S MOTHER

VI. THE FACE AT THE WINDOW

VI. AN EXPERIENCE

VIII. THE BOARDERS

IX. BREAKFAST IS MY BEST MEAL

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X. THE MOTHER-BIRD

XI THE AMIGO

XII BLACK CROSS FARM

XII. THE CRITICAL BOOKSTORE

XIII. A FEAST OF REASON

XV. CITY AND COUNTRY IN THE FALL

XVI. TABLE TALK

XVII. THE ESCAPADE OF A GRANDFATHER

XVIII. SELF-SACRIFICE: A FARCE-TRAGEDY

I. MISS ISOBEL RAMSEY AND MISS ESTHER GARNETT

II. NORA, MISS RAMSEY, MISS GARNETT

III. MISS RAMSEY, MISS GARNETT

IV. NORA, MISS RAMSEY

V. MR. ASHLEY, MISS RAMSEY

VI. MISS GARNETT, MR. ASHLEY

VII. MISS RAMSEY, ASHLEY

XIX. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. A MORALITY

I. MR. AND MRS. CLARENCE FOUNTAIN

II. MR. FRANK WATKINS, MRS. FOUNTAIN, FOUNTAIN

III. MRS. FOUNTAIN, FOUNTAIN

IV. THE FOUNTAINS, FOUNTAIN'S SISTERS

V. MRS. FOUNTAIN, FOUNTAIN

VI. WILBUR HAZARD, THE FOUNTAINS

VII. MRS. FOUNTAIN, FOUNTAIN

VIII. MAGGIE, THE FOUNTAINS

IX. JIM, SUSY, THE FOUNTAINS

X. MRS. FOUNTAIN, FOUNTAIN

XI. MAGGIE, MRS. FOUNTAIN, FOUNTAIN

XII. MRS. FOUNTAIN, FOUNTAIN

XIII. JIM AND SUSY, MRS. FOUNTAIN, FOUNTAIN

XIV. MRS. FOUNTAIN, FOUNTAIN

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They were getting some of their things out to send into the country, and Forsyth had left his work to help his wife look them over and decide which to take and which to leave. The things were mostly trunks that they had stored the fall before; there were some tables and Colonial bureaus inherited from his mother, and some mirrors and decorative odds and ends, which they would not want in the furnished house they had taken for the summer. There were some canvases which Forsyth said he would paint out and use for other subjects, but which, when he came to look at again, he found really not so bad. The rest, literally, was nothing but trunks; there were, of course, two or three boxes of books. When they had been packed closely into the five-dollar room, with the tables and bureaus and mirrors and canvases and decorative odds and ends put carefully on top, the Forsyths thought the effect very neat, and laughed at themselves for being proud of it.

They spent the winter in Paris planning for the summer in America, and now it had come May, a month which in New York is at its best, and in the Constitutional Storage Safe-Deposit Warehouse is by no means at its worst. The Constitutional Storage is no longer new, but when the Forsyths were among the first to store there it was up to the latest moment in the modern perfections of a safe-deposit warehouse. It was strictly fire-proof; and its long, white, brick-walled, iron-doored corridors, with their clean concrete floors, branching from a central avenue to the tall windows north and south, offered perspectives sculpturesquely bare, or picturesquely heaped with arriving or departing household stuff.

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"What did you say?"

"I couldn't tell which," the child still whispered; but now her mother's ear was at her lips.

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