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COUNTRY NEIGHBORS
COUNTRY
NEIGHBORS
BY
ALICE BROWN
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1910
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY ALICE BROWN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published April 1910
CONTENTS
- The Play House1
- His First Wife20
- A Flower of April42
- The Auction53
- Saturday Night76
- A Grief Deferred96
- The Challenge122
- Partners150
- Flowers of Paradise171
- Gardener Jim192
- The Silver Tea-Set215
- The Other Mrs. Dill237
- The Advocate265
- The Masquerade285
- A Poetess in Spring314
- The Master Minds of History341
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[1]THE PLAY HOUSE
Amelia Maxwell sat by the front-chamber window of the great houseoverlooking the road, and her own "story-an'-a-half" farther toward thewest. Every day she was alone under her own roof, save at the times whenold lady Knowles of the great house summoned her for work at fine sewingor braiding rags. All Amelia's kin were dead. Now she was used to theirsolemn absence, and
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