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The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel By: John Strange Winter (1856-1911) |
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E text prepared by D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading
Team (http://www.pgdp.net) THE LITTLE VANITIES OF MRS. WHITTAKER A Novel by JOHN STRANGE WINTER Author of
" Bootles' Baby ," " The Truth Tellers ," " A Blaze of Glory ,"
" Marty ," " Little Joan ," " Cherry's Child ,"
" A Blameless Woman ," etc. Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York and London
1904 Copyright, 1904, by
Funk & Wagnalls Company [Published, June, 1904]
CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. REGINA BROWN 9
II. MRS. ALFRED WHITTAKER 17
III. YE DENE 26
IV. SKATING ON THIN ICE 35
V. THE S. R. W. 45
VI. REGINA'S VIEWS 54
VII. "LITTLE PIGLETS OF ENGLISH" 64
VIII. CANDID OPINIONS 73
IX. THE GIRLS' DOMAIN 83
X. A WEIGHTY BUSINESS 92
XI. AMBITIONS 101
XII. TWOPENNY DINNERS 110
XIII. DETAILS 119
XIV. DIAMOND EARRINGS 127
XV. A GOLDEN DAY 136
XVI. OTHER GODS 144
XVII. REGINA COMES TO A CONCLUSION 152
XVIII. THE FIRST LITTLE VANITIES 160
XIX. BROKEN HEARTED MIRANDA 168
XX. FAMILY CRITICISM 176
XXI. DEAR DIEPPE 183
XXII. REGINA ON THE WARPATH 190
XXIII. THE DRESSING ROOM 198
XXIV. RUMOR 208
XXV. POOR MOTHER 216
XXVI. THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATH 224
XXVII. ROUND EVERYWHERE 233
XXVIII. A REJUVENATED REGINA 241
XXIX. WARY AND PATIENT 247
XXX. DADDY'S HEART 255
XXXI. REGINA SETS FOOT ON THE DOWN GRADE 263
XXXII. WISE JULIA 270
XXXIII. GRASP YOUR NETTLE 277
XXXIV. A TRENCHANT QUESTION 284
XXXV. THE END OF IT ALL 292
The Little Vanities of
Mrs. Whittaker
CHAPTER I REGINA BROWN There are many who think that the unfamiliar is best.
To begin my story properly, I must go back to the time when the Empress
Eugenie had not started the vogue of the crinoline, when the Indian
Mutiny had not stained the pages of history, and the Crimean War was as
yet but a cloud the size of a man's hand on the horizon of the
world that is to say, to the very early fifties. It was then that a little girl child was born into the world, a little
girl who was called by the name of Regina, and whose father and mother
bore the homely appellation of Mr. and Mrs. Brown; yes, plain, simple
and homely Brown, without even so much as an "e" placed at the tail
thereof to give it a distinction from all the other Browns. So far as I have ever heard, the young childhood of Regina Brown was
passed in quite an ordinary and conventional atmosphere. Her parents
were well meaning, honest, kindly, well disposed, middle class persons.
According to their lights they educated their daughter extremely well;
that is to say, she was sent to a genteel seminary, she was always
nicely dressed, and she wore her hair in ringlets. This state of things continued, without any particular change,
until Regina was nearly twenty years old. By that time the great
Franco Prussian War had beaten itself into peace, the horrors of the
Commune of Paris had come and gone, and the sun of Regina Brown's
twentieth birthday rose upon a world in which nations had come once
more, at least to outward seeming, to the conclusion that all men are
brothers... Continue reading book >>
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