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John P. Marquand. Wickford Point
Wickford Point
Table of Contents
I
Sid Sucks the Gasoline
II
"Fair Harvard, Thy Sons ..."
III
After All, It's Just Putting Words on Paper
IV
It's All in the Family
V
He Wouldn't Know the Old Place Now
VI
The Front Door Sticks
VII
Age Cannot Wither Her, nor Custom Stale ..
VIII
Mary, Mary
IX
It Won't Take a Minute to Pack
X
Speak to Me of Love
XI
Ride, Ride Together, Forever Ride
XII
Autograph, Mr. Stowe?
XIII
Of All Sad Words ..
XIV
Evening and the Arts
XV
All Aboard
XVI
You Dear Delightful Women
XVII
Ante-Bellum Boys
XVIII
The Service Will Be Held
XIX
Little Mr. Make-Believe
XX
You Can't Get Away from It, Darling
XXI
... Parlez-vous
XXII
November 2, 1925
XXIII
Up and Out
XXIV
They Say It Loves a Lover
XXV
Dreadfully, Dreadfully Happy
XXVI
Stowe Proposes—Sid Disposes
XXVII
When You Call Him That—Smile
XXVIII
Thunder on the Left
XXIX
Nothing Ever Stops
XXX
Howard Writes the Ticket
XXXI
Good-by, Girls
XXXII
Definitely He's Crazy
XXXIII
Even the Weariest River
XXXIV
Wickford Lights
XXXV
It Can't Go on Like This
XXXVI
The Wickford Sage
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Marqu, John P.
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"They were sitting under an apple tree," my grandfather said, "playing 'Quotations.' Clethra was painting a picture and they asked me to stay to supper and then they found there wasn't any supper. I took Clethra downtown in the carryall and bought some. That was forty years ago. I've been buying everybody's supper ever since, the whole damn family's supper. I'd be worth two million dollars now if I hadn't stopped that day at Wickford Point. When I die I'll still be paying for that supper, if there's any money left."
My grandfather smiled suddenly and I realized that he was not being unkind.
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