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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches Author: Sarah Orne Jewett Release Date: June 4, 2005 [EBook #15985] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEEPHAVE AND OTHERS *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Louise Pryor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net DEEPHAVEN and SELECTED STORIES AND SKETCHES by SARAH ORNE JEWETT Contents DEEPHAVEN (1877) SELECTED STORIES AND SKETCHES AN AUTUMN HOLIDAY (1881) FROM A MOURNFUL VILLAGER (1881) AN OCTOBER RIDE (1881) TOM'S HUSBAND (1884) MISS DEBBY'S NEIGHBORS (1884) DEEPHAVEN Preface This book is not wholly new, several of the chapters having already been published in the "Atlantic Monthly." It has so often been asked if Deephaven may not be found on the map of New England under another name, that, to prevent any misunderstanding, I wish to say, while there is a likeness to be traced, few of the sketches are drawn from that town itself, and the characters will in almost every case be looked for there in vain. I dedicate this story of out-of-door life and country people first to my father and mother, my two best friends, and also to all my other friends, whose names I say to myself lovingly, though I do not write them here. S. O. J. Contents KATE LANCASTER'S PLAN THE BRANDON HOUSE AND THE LIGHTHOUSE MY LADY BRANDON DEEPHAVEN SOCIETY THE CAPTAINS DANNY CAPTAIN SANDS THE CIRCUS AT DENBY CUNNER-FISHING MRS. BONNY IN SHADOW MISS CHAUNCEY LAST DAYS IN DEEPHAVEN _Kate Lancaster's Plan_ I had been spending the winter in Boston, and Kate Lancaster and I had been together a great deal, for we are the best of friends. It happened that the morning when this story begins I had waked up feeling sorry, and as if something dreadful were going to happen. There did not seem to be any good reason for it, so I undertook to discourage myself more by thinking that it would soon be time to leave to
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