The Loves of Ambrose

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Vandercook Margaret. The Loves of Ambrose

PART ONE. HIS FIRST WIFE

CHAPTER I. THE DEPARTURE

CHAPTER II. THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE

CHAPTER III. PEACHY

CHAPTER IV "Even so, Love, even so! Whither thou goest, I will go."

CHAPTER V. THE RETURN

PART TWO. HIS SECOND WIFE

CHAPTER VI. RECONSTRUCTION

CHAPTER VII. EM'LY DUNHAM

CHAPTER VIII. THE FEMALE DELEGATION

CHAPTER IX "The tides of love and laughter run. Increasing aye from sun to sun."

CHAPTER X. THE REVELATION

CHAPTER XI. FOLLOWING HIS ADVICE

CHAPTER XII. A LIGHT IN DARKNESS

CHAPTER XIII. THE SURPRISE PARTY

PART THREE. HIS THIRD WIFE

CHAPTER XIV. THIRTY YEARS

CHAPTER XV. ORIGINAL SIN

CHAPTER XVI. THE ETERNAL FIRE

CHAPTER XVII. THE REVIVAL SERVICE

CHAPTER XVIII. INDIAN SUMMER

PART FOUR. HIS FOURTH WIFE

CHAPTER XIX "'LIZABETH"

CHAPTER XX "GIVING IN MARRIAGE"

CHAPTER XXI "I SHALL WANT MY EM'LY."

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Ambrose Thompson opened his front door and looked out. It was May, the sun had just risen over Pennyroyal, and before him lay Kentucky's carnival of spring.

The boy drew a deep breath that seemed to rise and quiver over his face like a breeze coming away at the end of his long, curiously emotional nose.

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"He's goin' courtin'; Ambrose Thompson is always runnin' after girls! It's Peachy Williams, for I seen his leg under his duster, and he's wearing his Sunday clothes!"

These last words were a triumph of evidence, but not for a moment would Ambrose look back nor appear to have heard. A humorous affection he might feel for the older Susan, but for the younger his dislike was to last for more than fifty years. Nevertheless, a little later he did turn around, and root and branch, the Susans had vanished, so that even now the news of his departure was stirring through Pennyroyal as the wind moves the leaves in a group of closely planted trees.

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