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A ROMANTIC YOUNG LADY.
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A ROMANTIC YOUNG LADY
by
ROBERT GRANT
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Romantic Young Lady by Robert Grant
- 2: Boston Ticknor and Company 1886Copyright
- 3: Miss Jenks went away in October
- 4: And going to a side table took up a large tin box
- 5: Although I knew that Aunt Agnes was very fond of me
- 6: When a Harlan gets a fixed idea
- 7: I announced my intention of wearing the locket
- 8: Pussy Dale was Roger's eldest sister
- 9: I don't understand what you mean
- 10: Aunt Agnes added her quota to my sense of wrong
- 11: But Aunt Agnes apparently did not perceive my innuendo
- 12: Dale regarding his business he replied
- 13: Only longer and intenser than before Miss Harlan
- 14: Dale will be here early next week
- 15: Dale is mercenary in his views
- 16: Pressing his arm with feverish fondness
- 17: Having arrived at this determination I went downstairs
- 18: And the servant ushered in Roger Dale
- 19: And I glanced anxiously at Roger
- 20: If there were any chance of your father's relenting
- 21: It would be madness in us to marry without your consent
- 22: This time Roger perceived that he was being laughed at
- 23: Aunt Helen was somewhat apprehensive regarding my plans
- 24: Naturally I often thought of Aunt Agnes
- 25: Dobbs or Dobson of Philadelphia
- 26: Miss Kingsley gave a little gasp
- 27: Spence has ever danced the German in his life
- 28: And Miss Kingsley whisked out of the room
- 29: Aunt Agnes did not answer for a moment
- 30: The Overmuch and the Undermuch
- 31: Nor was this inconsistent with his general theory
- 32: Barr promise to get him to give us an exposition
- 33: I heard Miss Kingsley whisper to Mr
- 34: Spence looked at Miss Kingsley interrogatively
- 35: Fleisch brimming over with excitement said
- 36: Where self undulates freely there is no novitiate
- 37: Spence in regard to conversation
- 38: Spence had been impaired by the whisper of Miss Kingsley
- 39: But eating is quite a different thing from income
- 40: Fleisch and Miss Kingsley he had been sitting apart with Mrs
- 41: Spence was thoroughly and grandly in earnest
- 42: And will devote myself to the cause with all my heart
- 43: Spence heard me to the end without interruption
- 44: Fleisch is an excellent instructor
- 45: Paul Barr conversed with my father
- 46: Spence Spence I never heard the name in my life
- 47: Spence in an intelligent manner
- 48: Lucretia Kingsley has herself to blame
- 49: Miss Kingsley has slandered me
- 50: I had been cruelly misconstrued
- 51: Miss Kingsley must have thought differently
- 52: Without becoming a convert to moderation
- 53: She had none of Aunt Agnes's downrightness
- 54: For one could never be sure that Paul Barr was not a genius
- 55: Meanwhile he had seated himself at an old worn out piano
- 56: I cannot stay and endure this absurdity
- 57: On the threshold stood Miss Kingsley
- 58: Spence seemed greatly moved and excited
- 59: Spence was in any way responsible
- 60: And I wept in turn as I read the pitiful sentences
- 61: Moderate view in accordance with the views just expressed
- 62: Spence had gone and I was left alone to make up my mind
- 63: It seemed to me that he looked tired and worn
- 64: It is not of him I wish to speak
- 65: For he is the advocate of the theory of Moderation
- 66: Spence wants me to agree never to touch any of it
- 67: Spence to be monstrous and absurd
- 68: I was not present at the interview
- 69: Chelm was the conventional idea of a successful lawyer
- 70: This practice received likewise the approval of Aunt Helen
- 71: Unobservant as I was at this time
- 72: And in the amazed countenance of Aunt Helen
- 73: However far distant from the conception of a salon
- 74: Whose genius was already celebrated
- 75: Fleisch whom I invited to several of my receptions
- 76: Spence from his labors to myself
- 77: Chelm often told me more about them
- 78: Chelm found it most difficult to assist
- 79: They even cast Ike in my teeth
- 80: Bankers are discharging their clerks
- 81: Prime knew what a champion he has
- 82: Chelm leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily
- 83: This romantic young philanthropist talks of fibbing
- 84: I fear he has no security to offer unless it be Ike
- 85: Chelm might feel his legal conscience prick him
- 86: It would not be fair to your client
- 87: Chelm as to the success of my experiment
- 88: And most of them he slapped back in return
- 89: He is only the Honorable Ernest Ferroll at present
- 90: Ferroll a hint to humor her a little
- 91: The Honorable Ernest Ferroll's attentions
- 92: And his cold eye fell on me with a chilling scrutiny
- 93: Prime turned back to me with an air of inquiry
- 94: It was indeed a strange freak of destiny
- 95: Who only needed employment to be comfortable and happy
- 96: Only a little more euphemistically She's a daisy
- 97: Prime seemed especially grave and moody
- 98: And that curtsy caps the climax
- 99: Prime was very partial to my society
- 100: And I was conscious of being irrational
- 101: And it is imperative that I should go
- 102: And I am punished for my lack of faith
- 103: Once in the gayety of my mood I called Ike to me
- 104: And it might be that Francis Prime would take me at my word
- 105: Charles Liversage Spence and Miss Lucretia Kingsley
- 106: That Aunt Helen means well in the matter
- 107: Or Aunt Helen drinking tea with Aunt Agnes
- 108: Chelm looked at me with a blank sort of gaze
- 109: Francis Prime stood confounded
- 110: Chelm with the tears in my eyes
- 111: Replied Aunt Helen with haughtiness
- 112: With Introduction by JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE
- 113: Henderson is the most promising novelist who
- 114: Richly illustrated after photographs taken in Korea
- 115: By Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren 1
- 116: 25 For sale by all booksellers
- 117: THE FAMILIAR LETTERSOF Peppermint Perkins
- 118: Nathaniel hawthorne and his wife
- 119: Howells how to steep his pictures