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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,
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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
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"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. Campbell: "These replies. Why, I do believe that more than half the
people have answered already, and the invitations only went out
yesterday. That comes from putting on R... Continue reading book >>
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