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Title: Mary Wollaston

Author: Henry Kitchell Webster

Release Date: February 19, 2004 [EBook #11161]

Language: English

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MARY WOLLASTON

BY HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER

1920

CONTENTS

I THE CIRCASSIAN GRAND

II SEA DRIFT

III THE PEACE BASIS

IV THE PICTURE PUZZLE

V JOHN MAKES A POINT OF IT

VI STRINGENDO

VII NO THOROUGHFARE

VIII THE DUMB PRINCESS

IX IN HARNESS

X AN INTERVENTION

XI NOT COLLECTABLE

XII HICKORY HILL

XIII LOW HANGS THE MOON

XIV A CLAIRVOYANT INTERVAL

XV THE END OF IT

XVI FULL MEASURE

XVII THE WAYFARER

XVIII A CASE OF NECESSITY

XIX THE DRAMATIST

XX TWO WOMEN AND JOHN

XXI THE SUBSTITUTE

XXII THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE

XXIII THE TERROR

XXIV THE WHOLE STORY

XXV DAYBREAK

XXVI JOHN ARRIVES

XXVII SETTLING PAULA

XXVIII THE KALEIDOSCOPE

MARY WOLLASTON

CHAPTER I

THE CIRCASSIAN GRAND

Miss Lucile Wollaston was set to exude sympathy, like an aphid waiting
for an overworked ant to come down to breakfast. But there was no
sympathizing with the man who came in from a doctor's all-night vigil
like a boy from a ball-game, gave her a hard brisk kiss on the
cheek-bone, and then, before taking his place at the table, unfolded the
morning paper for a glance at the head-lines.

If there was something rigorous about the way she lighted the alcohol
lamp under the silver urn and rang for Nathaniel, the old colored butler,
it was from a determination not to let this younger brother of hers put
her into a flurry again as he so often did. A very much younger brother
indeed, he seemed when this mood was on him.

Miss Wollaston was born on the election day that made James Buchanan
president of the United S