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The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
By Anne WarnerAuthor of "A Woman's Will," "Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop,"
"Susan Clegg and a Man in the House," etc.
NEW EDITION
With Additional Pictures from the Play
Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1910
Copyright, 1904,
By Ainslee Magazine Company.
Copyright, 1905,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
Copyright, 1907,
By Little, Brown, and Company,
All rights reserved
Fourteenth Printing
Printers
S.J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U.S.A.
[ Frontispiece ]
Aunt Mary en Fête. May Robson as "Aunt Mary."
Books by Anne Warner
A Woman's Will 1904
Susan Clegg and Her 1904
Friend Mrs. Lathrop
The Rejuvenation of Aunt 1905
Mary
Susan Clegg and Her 1906
Neighbor's Affairs
Susan Clegg and a Man in 1907
the House
An Original Gentleman 1908
In a Mysterious Way 1909
Your Child and Mine 1909
CONTENTS
Illustrations
Chapter One Introducing Aunt Mary
Chapter Two Jack
Chapter Three Introducing Jack
Chapter Four Married
Chapter Five The Day After Falling in Love
Chapter Six The Other Man
Chapter Seven Developments
Chapter Eight The Resolution He Took
Chapter Nine The Downfall of Hope
Chapter Ten The Woes of the Disinherited.
Chapter Eleven The Dove of Peace
Chapter Twelve A Trap For Aunt Mary
Chapter Thirteen Aunt Mary Entrapped
Chapter Fourteen Aunt Mary En Fête
Chapter Fifteen Aunt Mary Enthralled
Chapter Sixteen A Reposeful Interval
Chapter Seventeen Aunt Mary's Night About Town
Chapter Eighteen A Departure And A Return
Chapter Nineteen Aunt Mary's Return
Chapter Twenty Jack's Joy
Chapter Twenty One The Peace and Quiet of the Country
Chapter Twenty Two "Granite"
Chapter Twenty Three "Granite" Continued.
Chapter Twenty Four Two Are Company
Chapter Twenty Five Grand Finale
ILLUSTRATIONS
"Aunt Mary en fête" (May Robson as "Aunt Mary") Frontispiece
"'Do not let us play any longer,' she said. 'Let us be in earnest'"
"'She's goin' to the city all alone!' Lucinda's voice suddenly
proclaimed behind him"
Aunt Mary and Her Escorts
"The carriage stopped three hundred feet below the level of a
roof garden"
"And now the fun's all over and the work begins"
"'Yesterday I played poker until I didn't know a blue chip from a
white one'"
"Aunt Mary had also had her eyes open"
THE REJUVENATION OF AUNT MARY
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCING AUNT MARY
The first time that Jack was threatened with expulsion from college his
Aunt Mary was much surprised and decidedly vexed mainly at the college.
His family were less surprised, viewing the young man through a clearer
atmosphere than his Aunt Mary ever had, and knowing that he had barely
escaped similar experiences earlier in his career by invariably leaving
school the day before the board of inquiry convened.
Jack's preparatory days having been more or less tempestous, his family
(Aunt Mary excepted) had expected some sort of after clap when he entered
college. Nevertheless, they had fervently hoped that it would not be quite
as bad as this.
Jack's sister Arethusa was visiting her aunt when the news came. Not
because she wanted to, for the old lady was dreadfully deaf and fearfully
arbitrary, but because Lucinda had said that she must go to her cousin's
wedding, and the family always had to bow to Lucinda's mandates. Lucinda
was Aunt Mary's maid, but she had become so indispensable as a sitter at
the off end of the latter's ear trumpet that none of the grand nephews or
grand nieces ever thought for an instant of crossing one of her wishes. So
it was to Arethusa that the explanations due Aunt Mary's interest in her
scapegrace fell, and she bowed her back to the burden with the resignation
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