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Title: Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop

Author: Anne Warner

Release Date: May 25, 2005 [EBook #15899]

Language: English

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SUSAN CLEGG

AND

Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop

BY

ANNE WARNER

Author of "A Woman's Will," etc.

BOSTON
Little, Brown, and Company

1904

_Copyright, 1903, 1904_,
BY THE CENTURY COMPANY.

_Copyright, 1904_,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

_PREFATORY NOTE_

_The first four chapters of "Susan Clegg and her Friend Mrs. Lathrop"
appeared in "The Century Magazine" as separate stories during the
past year. They have been revised and partly rewritten for book
publication, and "The Minister's Vacation," never before printed,
has been added._

_Miss Clegg and her friend Mrs. Lathrop, as well as the other
characters in the book, and the scenes in which they figure, are
wholly imaginary_.

Contents

Page
I
The Marrying of Susan Clegg 1

II
Miss Clegg's Adopted 43

III
Jathrop Lathrop's Cow 83

IV
Susan Clegg's Cousin Marion 126

V
The Minister's Vacation 166

SUSAN CLEGG

_And her Friend Mrs. Lathrop_

I

THE MARRYING OF SUSAN CLEGG

Susan Clegg and Mrs. Lathrop were next-door neighbors and bosom
friends. Their personalities were extremely congenial, and the
theoretical relation which the younger woman bore to the elder was a
further bond between them. Owing to the death of her mother some
twenty years before, Susan had fallen into the position of a helpless
and timid young girl whose only key to the problems of life in general
had been the advice of her older and wiser neighbor. As a matter of
fact Mrs. Lathrop was barely twelve years the senior, but she had
married and as a