O Genteel Lady! (1926)
by Esther Louise Forbes
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O Genteel Lady!


O GENTEEL LADY!

Boston and New York
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1926

Copyright, 1926, by Esther Forbes Hoskins
All rights reserved

The Riverside Press
Cambridge · Massachusetts
Printed in the U.S.A.

To
My Father and Mother

CONTENTS



I. A Lady Leaves Home 1
II. And Goes to Work 23
III. She Discovers Mr. Fox 46
IV. And Anthony Jones 72
V. She Sees the Sunlight on the Snow 108
VI. She Feels the Shadow 135
VII. And Hears More about Mamma 150
VIII. She Sets Sail 168
IX. To Italy 178
X. Sees Something of London 201
XI. And Less of Jones 226
XII. Witches and Devils Torment Her 247
XIII. She Keeps a Good Man Dangling, but— 258
XIV. Hymen Vincit Omnia 284
XV. 'Time stays; we go!' 296



This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1926, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1967, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 56 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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