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Title: Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)

Author: Constance Fenimore Woolson
H. C. Bunner
N. P. Willis
Mary Hallock Foote
J. W. De Forest

Release Date: August 25, 2007 [EBook #22401]

Language: English

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STORIES BY AMERICAN AUTHORS.

VOLUME 4

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[Illustration: Noah Brooks]

Stories by American Authors

VOLUME IV

_MISS GRIEF_
By CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON

_LOVE IN OLD CLOATHES_
By H. C. BUNNER

_TWO BUCKETS IN A WELL_
By N. P. WILLIS

_FRIEND BARTON'S CONCERN_
By MARY HALLOCK FOOTE

_AN INSPIRED LOBBYIST_
By J. W. DE FOREST

_LOST IN THE FOG_
By NOAH BROOKS

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1897

Copyright, 1884, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Transcriber's Note: In the story LOVE IN OLD CLOATHES, the circumflex
(^) is used to indicate that the letters following it are printed in
superscript type.

MISS GRIEF.

By Constance Fenimore Woolson.

(_Lippincott's Magazine, May,_ 1880.)

"A conceited fool" is a not uncommon expression. Now, I know that I am
not a fool, but I also know that I am conceited. But, candidly, can it
be helped if one happens to be young, well and strong, passably
good-looking, with some money that one has inherited and more that one
has earned--in all, enough to make life comfortable--and if upon this
foundation rests also the pleasant superstructure of a literary
success? The success is deserved, I think: certainly it was not
lightly-gained. Yet even with this I fully appreciate its rarity. Thus,
I find myself very well entertained in life: I have all I wish in the
way of society, and a deep, tho