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Title: The Madigans

Author: Miriam Michelson

Illustrator: Orson Lowell

Release Date: April 27, 2007 [EBook #21243]

Language: English

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[Illustration:
A Few of Irene's "Fathers"]

THE MADIGANS
BY
MIRIAM MICHELSON

AUTHOR OF "IN THE BISHOP'S CARRIAGE"

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY ORSON LOWELL

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1904

Copyright, 1904, by
The Century Co.

_Published October, 1904_

The DeVinne Press

CONTENTS

PAGE

Cecilia the Pharisee 3

A Pagan and a Puritan 39

A Merry, Merry Zingara 79

The Shut-Ups 115

The Ancestry of Irene 147

The Last Straw 189

A Ready Letter-Writer 219

"The Martyrdom of Man" 265

Kate: A Pretense 297

Old Mother Gibson 331

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
A Few of Irene's "Fathers" _Frontispiece_

"That settles Number 10," said Sissy, grimly 7

Left the room with such uncompromising hauteur
... that her aunt again exploded 13

"Please, Mr. Garvan," she said 17

Some of the Madigans 23

The Rest of the Madigans 29

Seizing Sissy in his arms, he bore her off to bed 35

"Play it, then, you mean thing," she cried, ... "if
it's going to do you any good!" 47

"Go and shake hands properly, like a little gentleman,"
bullied Mrs. Pemberton 53

Of the design and construction of which he was quite
vain 63

The Belle of the Afternoon