OUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

Boston and New York

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ROBINETTA

by

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Mary Findlater

Jane Findlater

Allan McAulay

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

Houghton Mifflin Company

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1910 AND 1911, BY KATE DOUGLAS RIGGS

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published February 1911

CONTENTS

I. THE PLUM TREE 1
II. THE MANOR HOUSE 7
III. YOUNG MRS. LORING 19
IV. A CHILLY RECEPTION 29
V. AT WITTISHAM 39
VI. MARK LAVENDAR 54
VII. A CROSS-EXAMINATION 69
VIII. SUNDAY AT STOKE REVEL 87
IX. POINTS OF VIEW 99
X. A NEW KINSMAN 113
XI. THE SANDS AT WESTON 127
XII. LOVE IN THE MUD 151
XIII. CARNABY TO THE RESCUE 170
XIV. THE EMPTY SHRINE 181
XV. "NOW LUBIN IS AWAY" 194
XVI. TWO LETTERS 210
XVII. MRS. DE TRACY CROSSES THE FERRY 217
XVIII. THE STOKE REVEL JEWELS 234
XIX. LAWYER AND CLIENT 250
XX. THE NEW HOME 260
XXI. CARNABY CUTS THE KNOT 273
XXII. CONSEQUENCES 284
XXIII. DEATH AND LIFE 299
XXIV. GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDSON 309
XXV. THE BELLS OF STOKE REVEL 324

ROBINETTA

I

THE PLUM TREE

At Wittisham several of the little houses had crept down very close to
the river. Mrs. Prettyman's cottage was just like a hive made for the
habitation of some gigantic bee; its pointed roof covered with deep,
close-cut