By Mary Heaton Vorse
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THE HEART’S COUNTRY. Illustrated.
THE VERY LITTLE PERSON. Illustrated.
THE BREAKING IN OF A YACHTSMAN’S WIFE. Illustrated.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston and New York

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
Prologue[1]
I[5]
II[17]
III[24]
IV[30]
V[36]
VI[43]
VII[50]
VIII[58]
IX[68]
X[85]
XI[97]
XII[112]
XIII[119]
XIV[128]
XV[146]
XVI[153]
XVII[168]
XVIII[187]
XIX[195]
XX[203]
XXI[221]
XXII[230]
XXIII[248]
XXIV[253]
XXV[261]
XXVI[276]
XXVII[282]

ILLUSTRATIONS

“You must come!” (page [151])[Frontispiece]
“I Hate your Society, anyway! I never did want to be an Old Maid!”[40]
“She is very lovely”[108]
She towered above Ellen, an Avenging Fate[176]
From drawings by Alice Barber Stephens.

THE HEART’S COUNTRY

PROLOGUE

The actors in this drama are dead, or else life has turned them into such different beings that their transformation is hardly less than that of death itself. Their thoughts are scattered to the winds, or live, oddly changed, in the bodies of their children—the girl who brought me the journals and packages of letters smiled up at me with the flashing smile of Ellen.

This girl, with a gesture of the hand, opened for me the gates of the past, and when she was gone I walked through them with beating heart, back over the steep path of years. This little package of long-forgotten papers which she had given me, and of whose contents she was ignorant, were a strange legacy, for it was my own youth that I found in them and the youth of Ellen.