CONTENTS

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CHAPTER ONE[1]
CHAPTER TWO[19]
CHAPTER THREE[33]
CHAPTER FOUR[47]
CHAPTER FIVE[56]
CHAPTER SIX[62]
CHAPTER SEVEN[73]
CHAPTER EIGHT[81]
CHAPTER NINE[87]
CHAPTER TEN[101]
CHAPTER ELEVEN[111]
CHAPTER TWELVE[120]
CHAPTER THIRTEEN[136]
CHAPTER FOURTEEN[143]
CHAPTER FIFTEEN[154]
CHAPTER SIXTEEN[162]
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN[171]
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN[178]
CHAPTER NINETEEN[184]
CHAPTER TWENTY[190]
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE[200]
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO[210]
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE[219]
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR[227]
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE[235]
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX[249]
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN[257]
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT[268]
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE[275]
CHAPTER THIRTY[286]
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE[296]
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO[311]
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE[325]
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR[334]
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE[346]
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX[352]
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN[357]
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT[372]
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE[385]
CHAPTER FORTY[396]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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"She referred to the cook, faithful and efficient colored plodder"[2]
"Impeccable yard plots, whitened flaggings and steps"[6]
"Each lady was sitting by her standing work-basket of cane"[10]
"'His name was Aristides Welkin, and we called him Mr. Arry'"[21]
"He held back the gate, too, for her to pass through"[30]
"Mamma looked around the castor and spoke briskly"[57]
"Before the mirror, trying on the dress from Cousin Anna"[70]
"Mr. Tuttle Jones ... sat with her through a pianoforte number"[78]
"Selina hurried out and joined him"[84]
"The two groups had ... gone sauntering out the sycamore-bordered road"[94]
"Rooted out his umbrella and tucked Amanthus, pretty thing, onto his arm"[118]
"A covered wooden bridge across the river ... seemed older than anything else"[126]
"Marcus was there when Selina arrived"[137]
"She went to her father"[140]
"Selina ... sat down to write her note"[144]
"She ... stood looking at them grouped below"[159]
"Miss 'Hontas came in ... and talked to her about many things"[168]
"Her veil trailed crookedly"[188]
"Owner and driver of a hack ... whereby he made a living, meeting trains"[192]
"Endeavoring to fit a glass into his eye"[203]
"Maud was going in for china painting"[220]
"'Mr. Welling looked at me in that ... quizzing way of his'"[223]
"They found Mrs. Harrison ... before the open fire"[230]
"He... stumbled over a rug and slopped the cream"[240]
"He below, lifting his hat"[254]
"'You haven't spoken to Papa about it?'"[258]
"Selina ... fell on her knees"[270]
"They boarded the street car"[282]
"Flowers take patience and faith, and tendance and waiting"[305]
"She watched the flying scene from the car window"[321]
"Culpepper ... leaned over the back of her chair and spoke softly to her"[344]
"'More uplift, more culture is the cry of the moment'"[362]
"For a full minute he did not speak"[373]
"And whistled real softly under Juliette's window"[382]
"Everybody waved and Culpepper was left standing there"[408]

SELINA

CHAPTER ONE