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Thomas Nelson Page. Gordon Keith
Gordon Keith
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
GORDON KEITH
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
GORDON KEITH'S PATRIMONY
CHAPTER II
GENERAL KEITH BECOMES AN OVERSEER
CHAPTER III
THE ENGINEER AND THE SQUIRE
CHAPTER IV
TWO YOUNG MEN
CHAPTER V
THE RIDGE COLLEGE
CHAPTER VI
ALICE YORKE
CHAPTER VII
MRS. YORKE FINDS A GENTLEMAN
CHAPTER VIII
MR. KEITH'S IDEALS
CHAPTER IX
MR. KEITH IS UNPRACTICAL, AND MRS. YORKE GIVES HIM GOOD ADVICE
CHAPTER X
MRS. YORKE CUTS THE KNOT
CHAPTER XI
GUMBOLT
CHAPTER XII
KEITH DECLINES AN OFFER
CHAPTER XIII
KEITH IN NEW YORK
CHAPTER XIV
THE HOLD-UP
CHAPTER XV
MRS. YORKE MAKES A MATCH
CHAPTER XVI
KEITH VISITS NEW YORK, AND MRS. LANCASTER SEES A GHOST
CHAPTER XVII
KEITH MEETS NORMAN
CHAPTER XVIII
MRS. LANCASTER
CHAPTER XIX
WICKERSHAM AND PHRONY
CHAPTER XX
MRS. LANCASTER'S WIDOWHOOD
CHAPTER XXI
THE DIRECTORS' MEETING
CHAPTER XXII
MRS. CREAMER'S BALL
CHAPTER XXIII
GENERAL KEITH VISITS STRANGE LANDS
CHAPTER XXIV
KEITH TRIES HIS FORTUNES IN ANOTHER LAND
CHAPTER XXV
THE DINNER AT MRS. WICKERSHAM'S
CHAPTER XXVI
A MISUNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER XXVII
PHRONY TRIPPER AND THE REV. MR. RIMMON
CHAPTER XXVIII
ALICE LANCASTER FINDS PHRONY
CHAPTER XXIX
THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
CHAPTER XXX
"SNUGGLERS' ROOST"
CHAPTER XXXI
TERPY'S LAST DANCE AND WICKERSHAM'S FINAL THROW
CHAPTER XXXII
THE RUN ON THE BANK
CHAPTER XXXIII
RECONCILIATION
CHAPTER XXXIV
THE CONSULTATION
CHAPTER XXXV
THE MISTRESS OF THE LAWNS
CHAPTER XXXVI
THE OLD IDEAL
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Thomas Nelson Page
Published by Good Press, 2019
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So Mr. Wickersham bought the Keith plantation and left it to Greene Bagge, Esq., to manage the business. Mr. Bagge wrote General Keith a diplomatic letter eulogistic of the South and of Mr. Wickersham's interest in it, and invited the General to remain on the place for the present as its manager.
General Keith sat for some time over that letter, his face as grave as it had ever been in battle. What swept before his mental vision who shall know? The history of two hundred years bound the Keiths to Elphinstone. They had carved it from the forest and had held it against the Indian. From there they had gone to the highest office of the State. Love, marriage, death--all the sanctities of life--were bound up with it. He talked it over with Gordon.
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