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Title: Life and Gabriella
The Story of a Woman's Courage

Author: Ellen Glasgow

Release Date: January 3, 2005 [EBook #14571]

Language: English

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LIFE AND
GABRIELLA

THE STORY OF A WOMAN'S COURAGE

BY
ELLEN GLASGOW

FRONTISPIECE
BY
C. ALLAN GILBERT

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1916

CONTENTS

BOOK FIRST--THE AGE OF FAITH

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Presents a Shameless Heroine 3
II. Poor Jane 30
III. A Start in Life 61
IV. Mirage 90
V. The New World 122
VI. The Old Serpent 148
VII. Motherhood 176

BOOK SECOND--THE AGE OF KNOWLEDGE

I. Disenchantment. 211
II. A Second Start in Life 241
III. Work 274
IV. The Dream and the Years 300
V. Success 331
VI. Discoveries 368
VII. Readjustments 406
VIII. The Test 444
IX. The Past 476
X. Dream and the Reality 501

BOOK FIRST

THE AGE OF FAITH

CHAPTER I

PRESENTS A SHAMELESS HEROINE

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw
a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour. On the
window-sill, midway between the white curtains, a pot of blue hyacinths
stood in a cracked china plate, and as the sunlight shone into the room,
the scent of the blossoms floated to the corner where Gabriella was
patiently pulling basting threads out of the hem of a skirt. For a
minute her capable hands stopped at their work, and raising her smooth
dark head she looked compassionately at her sister Jane, who was
sitting, like a frozen image of martyrdom, in the middle of the long
horsehair sofa. Thre