For the Major: A Novelette

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Woolson Constance Fenimore. For the Major: A Novelette

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

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"YOU are a little tired, Major?"

"Possibly. Somewhat. Sara has been reading aloud to me from the Review. She read all the long articles."

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He was a handsome, soldierly-looking man, tall, broad-shouldered, with noble bearing, and bold, well-cut features. He was dressed in black, with broad, stiff, freshly starched white cuffs, and a high standing collar, round which was folded a black silk cravat that when opened was three-quarters of a yard square. His thin gray hair, moustache, and imperial were cut after the fashion affected by the senior officers of the old army – the army before the war.

"They are not especially interesting in themselves, those two ladies," remarked his daughter, taking off her little black bonnet. "Miss Honoria cares more about one's shoes – whether or not they are dusty enough to injure her oiled floors – than about one's self; and Mrs. Hibbard talks all the time about her ducks."

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