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The End of a Coil By: Susan Warner (1819-1885) |
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THE END OF A COIL.
BY SUSAN WARNER AUTHOR OF "THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD." "Well begun is half done." LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO., 21 BERNERS STREET NOTE TO THE READER. As in the case of "My Desire," the turning facts of this story are
fact; even to the most romantic and unlikely detail. In this is found,
I hope, my justification for making the hero in one place repeat
something very like what was said by the hero of Queechy on a like
occasion. I was unwilling to disturb the absolute truth of the story,
so far as I had it.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. DOLLY'S ARRIVAL
II. CHRISTINA AND HER MOTHER
III. THE MARINE DICTIONARY
IV. THE "ACHILLES"
V. THE PIECE OF ROPE
VI. END OF SCHOOL TERM
VII. PLAYTHINGS
VIII. LONDON
IX. THE PEACOCKS
X. BRIERLEY COTTAGE
XI. IN THE PARK
XII. THE HOUSE
XIII. PREACHING AND PRACTICE
XIV. DIFFICULTIES
XV. THE CONSUL'S OFFICE
XVI. A FIGHT
XVII. RUPERT
XVIII. A SQUARE PARTY
XIX. SEEING SIGHTS
XX. LIMBURG
XXI. VENICE
XXII. MR. COPLEY
XXIII. THE WINE SHOP
XXIV. PAST GREATNESS
XXV. CHRISTMAS EVE
XXVI. NAPLES
XXVII. SORRENTO
XXVIII. AT THE VILLA
XXIX. WHITHER NOW?
XXX. DOWN HILL
XXXI. HANDS FULL
XXXII. THE NURSE
XXXIII. UNDER AN OAK TREE
XXXIV. UNDER THE SAME OAK
XXXV. WAYS AND MEANS
XXXVI. THIS PICTURE AND THAT
THE END OF A COIL.
CHAPTER I. DOLLY'S ARRIVAL. The door stands open of a handsome house in Walnut Street the Walnut
Street which belongs to the city of William Penn; and on the threshold
stands a lady, with her hand up to her brows, shielding her eyes from
the light. She is watching to see what will come out of a carriage just
driving up to the curbstone. The carriage stops; there descends first
the figure of a handsome, very comfortable looking gentleman. Mrs.
Eberstein's eyes pass over him very cursorily; she has seen him before;
and there is hardly a curl on his handsome head which his wife does not
know by heart. What comes next? Ah, that is she! the figure of the
expected one; and a little girl of some eleven years is helped
carefully out by Mr. Eberstein, and comes up the steps to the waiting
and watching lady. A delicate little thing, delicate in frame and
feature alike, with a fair, childish face, framed in by loose light
brown curls, and a pair of those clear, grave, wise, light hazel eyes
which have the power of looking so young and so spiritually old at
once. Those eyes are the first thing that Mrs. Eberstein sees, and they
fascinate her already. Meanwhile kind arms are opened wide, and take
the little one in. "Come at last, darling! And do you remember your Aunt Hal? and are you
half as glad to see her as she is to see you?" So Mrs. Eberstein gives
her greeting, while she is drawing the child through the hall and into
the parlour; gives it between kisses. "Why, no," said her husband, who had followed. "Be reasonable, Harry.
She cannot be so glad to see you as we are to see her. She has just
come from a long stage coach journey; and she is tired, and she is
hungry; and she has left a world she knows, and has come to a world she
doesn't know; hey, Dolly? isn't it true? Tell your Aunt Hal to stop
asking questions, and give you something to eat." "I have come to a world I don't know," repeated the little girl by way
of answer, turning her serious small face to her questioner, while Mrs.
Eberstein was busily taking off coat and hat and mufflers. "Yes, that's what I say!" returned Mr. Eberstein. "How do you like the
look of it, hey?" "I wonder who is asking questions now!" said Mrs. Eberstein. "There,
darling! now you are at home." She finished with another kiss; but, nevertheless, I think the feeling
that it was a strange world she had come to, was rather prominent in
Dolly. She suddenly stooped to a great Maltese cat that was lying on
the hearthrug, and I am afraid the eyes were glad of an excuse to get
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