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Title: The Book of Susan
A Novel

Author: Lee Wilson Dodd

Release Date: August 10, 2010 [EBook #33400]

Language: English

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THE

BOOK OF SUSAN

_A Novel_

BY LEE WILSON DODD

[Illustration]

"_Though she track the wilds,
Though she breast the crags,
Choosing no path--
Her kirtle tears not,
Her ankles gleam,
Her sandals are silver._"

NEW YORK
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY
681 FIFTH AVENUE

COPYRIGHT, 1920,
BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

_All Rights Reserved_

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CONTENTS

PAGE
THE FIRST CHAPTER 1
THE SECOND CHAPTER 24
THE THIRD CHAPTER 62
THE FOURTH CHAPTER 131
THE FIFTH CHAPTER 153
THE SIXTH CHAPTER 221
THE LAST CHAPTER 238

THE BOOK OF SUSAN

THE FIRST CHAPTER

I

IT happens that I twice saw Susan's mother, one of those soiled rags of
humanity used by careless husbands for wiping their boots; but Susan
does not remember her. John Stuart Mill studied Greek at three, and
there is a Russian