Mrs. Cliff's Yacht
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Stockton Frank Richard. Mrs. Cliff's Yacht
CHAPTER I. ALONE WITH HER WEALTH
CHAPTER II. WILLY CROUP DOESN'T KNOW
CHAPTER III. MISS NANCY SHOTT
CHAPTER IV. A LAUNCH INTO A NEW LIFE
CHAPTER V. A FUR-TRIMMED OVERCOAT AND A SILK HAT
CHAPTER VI. A TEMPERANCE LARK
CHAPTER VII. MR. BURKE ACCEPTS A RESPONSIBILITY
CHAPTER VIII. MR. BURKE BEGINS TO MAKE THINGS MOVE IN PLAINTON
CHAPTER IX. A MEETING OF HEIRS
CHAPTER X. THE INTELLECT OF MISS INCHMAN
CHAPTER XI. THE ARRIVAL OF THE NEW DINING-ROOM
CHAPTER XII. THE THORPEDYKE SISTERS
CHAPTER XIII. MONEY HUNGER
CHAPTER XIV. WILLY CROUP AS A PHILANTHROPIC DIPLOMATIST
CHAPTER XV. MISS NANCY MAKES A CALL
CHAPTER XVI. MR. BURKE MAKES A CALL
CHAPTER XVII. MRS. CLIFF'S YACHT
CHAPTER XVIII. THE DAWN OF THE GROVE OF THE INCAS
CHAPTER XIX. THE "SUMMER SHELTER"
CHAPTER XX. THE SYNOD
CHAPTER XXI. A TELEGRAM FROM CAPTAIN HORN
CHAPTER XXII. THE "SUMMER SHELTER" GOES TO SEA
CHAPTER XXIII. WILLY CROUP COMES TO THE FRONT
CHAPTER XXIV. CHANGES ON THE "SUMMER SHELTER"
CHAPTER XXV. A NOTE FOR CAPTAIN BURKE
CHAPTER XXVI "WE'LL STICK TO SHIRLEY!"
CHAPTER XXVII. ON BOARD THE "DUNKERY BEACON"
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PEOPLE ON THE "MONTEREY"
CHAPTER XXIX. THE "VITTORIO" FROM GENOA
CHAPTER XXX. THE BATTLE OF THE MERCHANT SHIPS
CHAPTER XXXI "SHE BACKED!"
CHAPTER XXXII. A HEAD ON THE WATER
CHAPTER XXXIII. 11° 30' 19" N. LAT. BY 56° 10' 49" W. LONG
CHAPTER XXXIV. PLAINTON, MAINE
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The next afternoon as the train approached Plainton, Mrs. Cliff found herself a great deal agitated as she thought of the platform at the station. Who would be there, – how should she be met? With all her heart she hoped that there would not be anything like a formal reception, and yet this was not improbable. Everybody knew she was coming; everybody knew by what train she would arrive. She had written to Willy Croup, and she was very sure that everybody knew everything that she had written. More than this, everybody knew that she was coming home rich. How rich they were not aware, because she had not gone into particulars on this subject, but they knew that the wealthy Mrs. Cliff would arrive at 5.20 that afternoon, and what were they going to do about it?
When she had gone home before, all her friends and neighbors, and even distant acquaintances, – if such people were possible in such a little town, – had come to her house to bid her welcome, and many of them had met her at the station. But then they had come to meet a poor, shipwrecked widow, pitied by most of them and loved by many. Even those who neither pitied nor loved her had a curiosity to see her, for she had been shipwrecked, and it was not known in Plainton how people looked after they had been wrecked.
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"I wonder if they are all crack-brained," thought Mrs. Cliff, as she went to the front door to attend to her baggage.
That evening nearly all Plainton came to see Mrs. Cliff. No matter how she returned, – as a purse-proud bondholder, as a lady of elegant wealth with her attendants, as an old friend suddenly grown jolly and prosperous, – it would be all right for her neighbors to go in and see her in the evening. There they might suit themselves to her new deportment whatever it might be, and there would be no danger of any of them getting into false positions, which would have been very likely indeed if they had gone to meet her at the station.
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