She stooped to pick up her basket. The other woman went her way. Madeleine stepped forward into a new and awful and wonderful world along a new and thorny and danger-beset path into a new and terrifying and pleasureless life.
A wave of something stern and mighty swelled within her. She put down her head and walked forward strongly, as though breasting and conquering a great wind.
BY DOROTHY CANFIELD
THE BENT TWIG
The story of a lovely, opened-eyed, opened-minded American girl.
"The romance holds you, the philosophy grips you, the characters delight you, the humor charms you—one of the most realistic American families ever drawn."—Cleveland Plaindealer.
THE SQUIRREL-CAGE
An unusual personal and real story of American family life.
"We recall no recent interpretation of American life which has possessed more of dignity and less of shrillness than this."—The Nation.