by
Harriet H. Robinson
1898
Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
Boston: 100 Purchase Street
Chapter 2: Schoolroom and Meeting-House
Chapter 12: From the Merrimack to the Mississippi
Chapter 4 She leaned forward, and watched the lighted shops, the crowded pavements, and listened hungrily to the noise of traffic. She was so absorbed in doing this that she gave the conductor absently the coppers for a twopenny ticket, and omitted to answer his caustic reference to her outstretched foot. When he had gone…
CHAPTER VII A GENERAL ELECTION — WE OPPOSE MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL — WE INTERVIEW MR BALFOUR — I LEAVE MANCHESTER TO ROUSE LONDON WITH £2 — I MEET MR. W. T. STEAD Fortunately for the new Militant Party, there was a prospective Cabinet Minister who chose as his constituency North-West Manchester. To us the whole…
Chapter 13 The little waitress at Mitchell’s dining-rooms was so much absorbed in thought during the day following the contest, that humorous customers, noting this, told her she was in love. To Miss Mitchell’s requests for an opinion as to the number of g’s in Reggie, she replied absently, and showed so little interest in…
Chapter XIX Setting an Example It was very quiet in the senior alcove of the library. Lydia cool and serene in immaculate white duck sat back in her chair, her Hegel held well up at the proper distance and angle. Ruth was studying with her elbows on the long table of polished oak, her hands…