CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I. | —Leaving Home. | [11] |
| II. | —Phœmie's First Visit. | [ 25] |
| III. | —About Girls. | [ 28] |
| IV. | —More About Girls. | [ 33] |
| V. | —Poor Children. | [ 39] |
| VI. | —He Has Come. | [ 41] |
| VII. | —The French Dress-maker. | [ 45] |
| VIII. | —The Genuine Madame. | [ 48] |
| IX. | —Ready to Land. | [ 51] |
| X. | —Down the Bay. | [ 54] |
| XI. | —The Grand Duke. | [ 57] |
| XII. | —Tickets for the Ball. | [ 60] |
| XIII. | —The Grand Duke's Ball. | [ 63] |
| XIV. | —The Natural History Philanthropist. | [ 67] |
| XV. | —Christmas in New York. | [ 74] |
| XVI. | —The Night Before Christmas. | [ 78] |
| XVII. | —Early Service. | [ 81] |
| XVIII. | —High Church. | [ 84] |
| XIX. | —Christmas Morning. | [ 88] |
| XX. | —About Lions. | [ 90] |
| XXI. | —Dining in the Dark. | [ 95] |
| XXII. | —New Year's Day. | [ 99] |
| XXIII. | —The New Year's Reception. | [ 102] |
| XXIV. | —Mignon: A Night at the Grand Opera. | [ 108] |
| XXV. | —The Black Crook. | [ 114] |
| XXVI. | —Living Apart. | [ 120] |
| XXVII. | —More About Fisk. | [ 124] |
| XXVIII. | —She Would Go. | [ 128] |
| XXIX. | —Mr. Greeley's Birthday Party. | [ 132] |
| XXX. | —Leap Year. | [ 135] |
| XXXI. | —A Man that Wouldn't Take Money. | [ 140] |
| XXXII. | —A Democratic Lunch. | [ 144] |
| XXXIII. | —Dempster Proposes a Trip. | [ 149] |
| XXXIV. | —In Washington. | [ 152] |
| XXXV. | —Getting Information. | [ 157] |
| XXXVI. | —The Liederkranz Ball. | [ 161] |
| XXXVII. | —How Did the Papers Know? | [ 165] |
| XXXVIII. | —Reception of the Japanese. | [ 168] |
| XXXIX. | —The Japanese. | [ 171] |
| XL. | —That Diplomatic Stag Party. | [ 174] |
| XLI. | —The Dinner. | [ 179] |
| XLII. | —In the Basement of the Capitol. | [ 182] |
| XLIII. | —Phœmie Dines with a Senator. | [186] |
| XLIV. | —Marble Halls. | [ 191] |
| XLV. | —Randolph Rogers' Bronze Doors. | [ 194] |
| XLVI. | —Was it a Meeting-house? | [ 197] |
| XLVII. | —Easter. | [ 201] |
| XLVIII. | —A Church Higher Yet. | [ 204] |
| XLIX. | —Easter Sunday. | [ 206] |
| L. | —That Man with the Lantern. | [ 211] |
| LI. | —Mrs. Grant's Reception. | [ 215] |
| LII. | —Representative Women. | [ 220] |
| LIII. | —A Literary Party. | [ 223] |
| LIV. | —Dressing for a Party. | [ 227] |
| LV. | —Foreign Ministers. | [ 230] |
| LVI. | —Good Clothes. | [ 237] |
| LVII. | —The Party of the Season. | [ 241] |
| LVIII. | —Down the Potomac. | [ 245] |
| LIX. | —Mount Vernon. | [ 250] |
| LX. | —Mr. Greeley's Nomination. | [ 253] |
| LXI. | —Women and Things. | [ 258] |
| LXII. | —A Trip to Annapolis. | [ 263] |
| LXIII. | —Among the Cadets. | [ 267] |
| LXIV. | —American Authors. | [ 271] |
| LXV. | —The Statue of Shakespeare. | [ 275] |
| LXVI. | —Racing Dresses. | [ 279] |
| LXVII. | —The First Horse-race. | [ 282] |
| LXVIII. | —Off Again. | [ 288] |
| LXIX. | —The Steeple-chase. | [ 293] |
| LXX. | —Preparing for Sea. | [ 296] |
| LXXI. | —Yacht-racing. | [ 300] |
| LXXII. | —Music that is Music. | [ 304] |
| LXXIII. | —Hubbishness. | [ 306] |
| LXXIV. | —Thunders of Music. | [ 308] |
| LXXV. | —Saratoga Trunks. | [ 312] |
| LXXVI. | —The Dolly Varden. | [ 314] |
| LXXVII. | —Starting for Long Branch. | [ 320] |
| LXXVIII. | —That Hair-trunk. | [ 323] |
| LXXIX. | —At the Branch. | [ 326] |
| LXXX. | —The Race-course. | [ 328] |
| LXXXI. | —Climbing Sea Cliff. | [ 332] |
| LXXXII. | —Fighting for the Body. | [ 335] |
| LXXXIII. | —Lions and Lambs. | [ 337] |
| LXXXIV. | —Experiences. | [ 240] |
| LXXXV. | —The Second Day. | [ 342] |
| LXXXVI. | —The Blacksmith's Conversion. | [ 347] |
| LXXXVII. | —That Ovation of Fire. | [ 352] |
| LXXXVIII. | —Let Him Go. | [ 359] |
| LXXXIX. | —Done Up in a Hurry. | [ 362] |
| XC. | —The Yellow Flag. | [ 367] |
| XCI. | —The Man that Saved Me. | [ 370] |
| XCII. | —Pleasure Bay. | [ 375] |
| XCIII. | —Netting Crabs. | [ 379] |
| XCIV. | —Extra Politeness. | [ 384] |
| XCV. | —The Clam-bake. | [ 387] |
| XCVI. | —That Clam-bake. | [ 390] |
| XCVII. | —One Hour of Heaven. | [ 392] |
| XCVIII. | —C. O. D. | [ 309] |
| XCIX. | —Taken In. | [ 404] |
PHŒMIE FROST'S EXPERIENCES.
I.
LEAVING HOME.
I HAVE made up my mind. Having put my hand to the plough, it isn't in me to back out of a duty when duty and one's own wishes sail amicably in the same canoe. I am going to give myself up to the good of mankind and the dissemination of great moral ideas.
Selected by the Society of Infinite Progress as its travelling missionary, with power to spread the most transcendental of New England ideas throughout the world, I shall take up my cross and go forth.
The evening after the Society had crowned me with this honor, I asked Aunt Kesiah and Uncle Ben Frost, who have been working the farm on shares ever since my father died, if they could not make out to do without me for some months, or weeks, or years, just as duty or my own feelings took a notion to stay.
Aunt Kesiah sat right down in the rocking-chair, and looked straight in my face for a whole minute without speaking.