Flower of the Dusk

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Reed Myrtle. Flower of the Dusk

Flower of the Dusk

Table of Contents

Flower of the Dusk

I

A Maker of Songs

II

Miss Mattie

III

The Tower of Cologne

IV

The Seventh of June

V

Eloise

VI

A Letter

VII

An Afternoon Call

VIII

A Fairy Godmother

IX

Taking the Chance

X

In the Garden

XI

Barbara's "To-morrow"

XII

Miriam

XIII

"Woman Suffrage"

XIV

Barbara's Birthday

XV

The Song of the Pines

XVI

Betrayal

XVII

"Never Again"

XVIII

The Passing of Fido

XIX

The Dreams Come True

XX

Pardon

XXI

The Perils of the City

XXII

Autumn Leaves

XXIII

Letters to Constance

XXIV

The Bells in the Tower

THE END

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Myrtle Reed

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The arbitrary social distinctions, made regardless of personality, are often cruelly ironical. Many a man, incapable by nature of life-long devotion to one woman, becomes a husband in half an hour, duly sanctioned by Church and State. A woman who remains unmarried, because, with fine courage, she will have her true mate or none, is called "an old maid." She may have the heart of a wife and the soul of a mother, but she cannot escape her sinister label. The real "old maids" are of both sexes, and many are married, but alas! seldom to each other.

A Grievance

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