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Title: The Bright Shawl

Author: Joseph Hergesheimer

Release Date: April 6, 2010 [EBook #31898]

Language: English

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THE
BRIGHT SHAWL

JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER

NEW YORK
ALFRED.A.KNOPF
1922

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

Published, October, 1922

Second Printing, October, 1922

Set up and electrotyped by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y.
Printed and bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

For
Hamilton and Phoebe Gilkyson junior
in their fine drawing-room
at Mont Clare

The Works Of Joseph Hergesheimer

Novels

The Lay Anthony [1914]
Mountain Blood [1915]
The Three Black Pennys [1917]
Java Head [1918]
Linda Condon [1919]
Cytherea [1922]
The Bright Shawl [1922]

Shorter Stories

Wild Oranges [1918]
Tubal Cain [1918]
The Dark Fleece [1918]
The Happy End [1919]

Travel

San Cristobal de la Habana [1920]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf

THE BRIGHT SHAWL

When Howard Gage had gone, his mother's brother sat with his head
bowed in frowning thought. The frown, however, was one of perplexity
rather than disapproval: he was wholly unable to comprehend the
younger man's attitude toward his experiences in the late war. The
truth was, Charles Abbott acknowledged, that he understood nothing,
nothing at all, about the present young. Indeed, if it hadn't been for
the thoroughly absurd, the witless, things they constantly did,
dispensing with their actual years he would have considered them the
present aged. They were so--well, so gloomy.

Yet, in view of the gaiety of the curre