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Title: Gordon Keith

Author: Thomas Nelson Page

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GORDON KEITH

by

THOMAS NELSON PAGE

With Illustrations by George Wright

1903

TO

A GRANDDAUGHTER

OF ONE LOIS HUNTINGTON

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. GORDON KEITH'S PATRIMONY
II. GENERAL KEITH BECOMES AN OVERSEER
III. THE ENGINEER AND THE SQUIRE
IV. TWO YOUNG MEN
V. THE RIDGE COLLEGE
VI. ALICE YORKE
VII. MRS. YORKE FINDS A GENTLEMAN
VIII. MR. KEITH'S IDEALS
IX. MR. KEITH IS UNPRACTICAL
X. MRS. YORKE CUTS A KNOT
XI. GUMBOLT
XII. KEITH DECLINES AN OFFER
XIII. KEITH IN NEW YORK
XIV. THE HOLD-UP
XV. MRS. YORKE MAKES A MATCH
XVI. KEITH VISITS NEW YORK, AND MRS. LANCASTER SEES A GHOST
XVII. KEITH MEETS NORMAN
XVIII. MRS. LANCASTER
XIX. WICKERSHAM AND PHRONY
XX. MRS. LANCASTER'S WIDOWHOOD
XXI. THE DIRECTORS' MEETING
XXII. MRS. CREAMER'S BALL
XXIII. GENERAL KEITH VISITS STRANGE LANDS
XXIV. KEITH TRIES HIS FORTUNES ABROAD
XXV. THE DINNER AT MRS. WICKERSHAM'S
XXVI. A MISUNDERSTANDING
XXVII. PHRONY TRIPPER AND THE REV. MR. RIMMON
XXVIII. ALICE LANCASTER FINDS PHRONY
XXIX. THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
XXX. "SNUGGLERS' ROOST"
XXXI. TERPY'S LAST DANCE AND WICKERSHAM'S FINAL THROW
XXXII. THE RUN ON THE BANK
XXXIII. RECONCILIATION
XXXIV. THE CONSULTATION
XXXV. THE MISTRESS OF THE LAWNS
XXXVI. THE OLD IDEAL

ILLUSTRATIONS

She was the first to break the silence (frontispiece)
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