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A Likely Story By: William Dean Howells (1837-1920) |
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LIKELY STORY BY W. D. HOWELLS. HARPER'S BLACK & WHITE SERIES A LIKELY STORY [Illustration: "THE MOST EXCITING PART."] A LIKELY STORY Farce BY W. D. HOWELLS ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] NEW YORK HARPER AND BROTHERS 1894 Harper's "Black and White" Series. Illustrated. 32mo, Cloth, 50 cents each. LATEST ISSUES: FIVE O'CLOCK TEA. Farce. By W. D. Howells. THE MOUSE TRAP. Farce. By W. D. Howells. A LIKELY STORY. Farce. By W. D. Howells. THIS PICTURE AND THAT. A Comedy. By Brander Matthews. TRAVELS IN AMERICA 100 YEARS AGO. By Thomas Twining. MY YEAR IN A LOG CABIN. By William Dean Howells. EVENING DRESS. A Farce. By William Dean Howells. THE WORK OF WASHINGTON IRVING. By Charles Dudley Warner. EDWIN BOOTH. By Laurence Hutton. PHILLIPS BROOKS. By Rev. Arthur Brooks, D.D. THE DECISION OF THE COURT. A Comedy. By Brander Matthews. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. By John White Chadwick. THE UNEXPECTED GUESTS. A Farce. By William Dean Howells. SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA. By Henry M. Stanley. THE RIVALS. By François Coppée. WHITTIER: NOTES OF HIS LIFE AND OF HIS FRIENDSHIPS. By Annie Fields. THE JAPANESE BRIDE. By Naomi Tamura. GILES COREY, YEOMAN. By Mary E. Wilkins. COFFEE AND REPARTEE. By John Kendrick Bangs. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent by the publishers, postage prepaid, on receipt of price. Copyright, 1894, by HARPER & BROTHERS. Copyright, 1885, by HARPER & BROTHERS. Copyright, 1885, by W. D. HOWELLS. All rights reserved. CONTENTS Chapter Page I MR. AND MRS. WILLIS CAMPBELL 7 II MR. WELLING; MR. CAMPBELL 29 III MRS. CAMPBELL; MR. WELLING; MR. CAMPBELL 34 IV JANE; MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 39 V MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 41 VI JANE; MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 43 VII MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 44 VIII MISS RICE, MISS GREENWAY, and the OTHERS 48 IX MISS GREENWAY; MR. WELLING 50 X MISS RICE; then MR. and MRS. CAMPBELL, and the OTHERS 53 ILLUSTRATIONS "THE MOST EXCITING PART OF IT" Frontispiece MR. WELLING EXPLAINS Facing page 52 A LIKELY STORY I MR. AND MRS. WILLIS CAMPBELL Mrs. Campbell: "Now this, I think, is the most exciting part of the whole affair, and the pleasantest." She is seated at breakfast in her cottage at Summering by the Sea. A heap of letters of various stylish shapes, colors, and superscriptions lies beside her plate, and irregularly straggles about among the coffee service. Vis à vis with her sits Mr. Campbell behind a newspaper. "How prompt they are! Why, I didn't expect to get half so many answers yet. But that shows that where people have nothing to do but attend to their social duties they are always prompt even the men; women, of course, reply early anyway, and you don't really care for them; but in town the men seem to put it off till the very last moment, and then some of them call when it's over to excuse themselves for not having come after accepting. It really makes you wish for a leisure class. It's only the drive and hurry of American life that make our men seem wanting in the convenances ; and if they had the time, with their instinctive delicacy, they would be perfect: it would come from the heart: they're more truly polite now. Willis, just look at this!" Campbell, behind his paper: "Look at what?" Mrs... Continue reading book >>
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