Jewel Weed

by Alice Ames Winter

E-text prepared by Roger Frank
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(http://www.pgdp.net)

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“Surely you must have read it long ago” Page 360

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JEWEL WEED BY ALICE AMES WINTER Author of “The Prize to the Hardy” WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRISON FISHER GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers :: :: New York

JEWEL WEED

BY ALICE AMES WINTER Author of “The Prize to the Hardy” WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRISON FISHER

GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers :: :: New York

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Copyright 1906

The Bobbs-Merrill Company

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October

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TO
MY FATHER AND MOTHER
CHARLES G. AND FANNY B. AMES

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER			PAGE
I		A Light from the Far East	[1]
II		Mother and Son	[28]
III		An Occidental Luminary	[41]
IV		At Madeline’s	[54]
V		Salad Days	[77]
VI		Jewel Weed	[99]
VII		Lena’s Progress	[116]
VIII		The Falls	[132]
IX		An Invitation	[152]
X		Bitter-Sweet	[173]
XI		Politics and Play	[194]
XII		An Engagement	[210]
XIII		An Awakening	[222]
XIV		The Return of Ram Juna	[242]
XV		The Honeymoon	[269]
XVI		Lena’s Friends	[298]
XVII		Grape-Shot	[324]
XVIII		Easter	[344]
XIX		Oriental Rubies	[365]
XX		A Light From the East Goes Out	[391]
XXI		A Light in the West Goes Down	[401]
XXII		Another Beginning	[426]

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