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Tasma. Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill
Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill
Table of Contents
Part I
Chapter I. The Rev. Mr. Lydiat's Reverie
Chapter II. Chiefly Explanatory, But Brief
Chapter III. Family Confidences
Chapter IV. Retrospective
Chapter V. The Result of the Reverie
Chapter VI. Mr. Cavendish makes a Difficulty
Part II
Chapter I. Why Mr. Piper Looked, Like Sister Anne, From His Tower
Chapter II. And What He Saw Therefrom
Chapter III. The Meaning Of What He Saw
Chapter IV. Father and Son
Part III
Chapter I. Family Greetings
Chapter II. A Home at the Antipodes
Chapter III. The Thin End of the Wedge
Chapter IV. The Widening of the Cleft
Chapter V. A Shaking Into Place
Part IV
Chapter I. Misgivings
Chapter II. Sara's Triumphs
Chapter III. Laura Does Penance
Chapter IV. Plain Speaking
Part V
Chapter I. Mr. Cavendish Discovers His Mission in Life
Chapter II. Casserole to the Fore
Chapter III. "Congratulations?"
Chapter IV. Retrospective Musings
Chapter V. "Suspense."
Chapter VI. Mrs. Cavendish Receives A Telegram
Chapter VII. Mr. Cavendish and Sara are Left in Charge
Chapter VIII. Margaret's Vocation
Chapter IX. George Repents Himself
Part VI
Chapter I. Sick Unto Death
Chapter II. The Rev. Mr. Lydiat is Called to the Rescue
Chapter III. A Readjustment
Chapter IV. Sara's Last Appearance
THE END
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Tasma
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"Seven-and-twenty!" repeated Margaret, the ready flush spreading itself over her face. There was nothing unmaidenly in the involuntary regret expressed in her tone. She did not even translate such regrets as a more self-absorbed person would have translated them, or perceive that they were the inevitable consequence of finding the few years which mark an ordinary woman's period of power slipping away without any of the tribute which seems of right to belong to them.
"Your cousin's a bit older than you, though," remarked Mrs. Cavendish, hopefully. "He takes after his poor mother, your Uncle Piper says--an ailing body, from what I can make out. She never had but the one child all the years they were married."
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