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Title: The Miller Of Old Church

Author: Ellen Glasgow

Release Date: April 30, 2006 [EBook #18286]

Language: English

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Produced by Doug Levy

THE MILLER OF OLD CHURCH

by Ellen Glasgow

To my sister Cary Glasgow McCormack
In loving acknowledgment of help
and sympathy through the years

CONTENTS

BOOK FIRST

JORDAN'S JOURNEY

Chapter

I. At Bottom's Ordinary
II. In Which Destiny Wears the Comic Mask
III. In Which Mr. Gay Arrives at His Journey's End
IV. The Revercombs
V. The Mill
VI. Treats of the Ladies' Sphere
VII. Gay Rushes Into a Quarrel and Secures a Kiss
VIII. Shows Two Sides of a Quarrel
IX. In Which Molly Flirts
X. The Reverend Orlando Mullen Preaches a Sermon
XI. A Flight and an Encounter
XII. The Dream and the Real
XIII. By the Mill-race
XIV. Shows the Weakness in Strength
XV. Shows the Tyranny of Weakness
XVI. The Coming of Spring
XVII. The Shade of Mr. Jonathan
XVIII. The Shade of Reuben
XIX. Treats of Contradictions
XX. Life's Ironies
XXI. In Which Pity Masquerades as Reason

BOOK SECOND

THE CROSS-ROADS

Chapter

I. In which Youth Shows a Little Seasoned
II. The Desire of the Moth
III Abel Hears Gossip and Sees a Vision
IV. His Day of Freedom
V. The Shaping of Molly
VI. In Which Hearts Go Astray
VII. A New Beginning to an Old Tragedy
VIII. A Great Passion in a Humble Place
IX. A Meeting in the Pasture
X. Tangled Threads
XI. The Ride to Piping Tree
XII. One of Love's Victims
XIII. What Life Teaches
XIV. The Turn of the Wheel
XV. Gay Discovers Himself
XVI. The End

Author's Note: The scene of this story is not the
place of the same name in Virginia.

BOOK FIRST

JORDAN'S JOURNEY

THE MILLER OF OLD