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قراءة كتاب Aunt Crete's Emancipation
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AUNT CRETE’S EMANCIPATION
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CLARA E. ATWOOD
THE GOLDEN RULE COMPANY
Tremont Temple
Boston, Mass.
By The Golden Rule Company
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | A Telegram and a Flight | 11 |
| II. | The Backwoods Cousin | 25 |
| III. | A Wonderful Day | 39 |
| IV. | Aunt Crete Transformed | 61 |
| V. | Luella and Her Mother are Mystified | 79 |
| VI. | An Embarrassing Meeting | 96 |
| VII. | Luella’s Humiliation | 117 |
| VIII. | Aunt Crete’s Partnership | 132 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| “She watched Luella’s dismayed face with growing alarm” Frontispiece | |
| “He helped with vigor” | 31 |
| “Donald watched her with satisfaction” | 52 |
| “She beamed upon the whole trainful of people” | 63 |
| “‘Somewhere I have seen that woman,’ exclaimed Luella’s mother” | 81 |
| “They stood face to face with the wonderful lady in the gray gown” | 102 |
| “‘It’s a lie! I say it’s a lie!’” | 123 |
| “Aunt Crete was at last emancipated” | 143 |
Aunt Crete’s Emancipation
CHAPTER I
A TELEGRAM AND A FLIGHT
“WHO’S at the front door?” asked Luella’s mother, coming in from the kitchen with a dish-towel in her hand. “I thought I heard the door-bell.”
“Luella’s gone to the door,” said her sister from her vantage-point at the crack of the sitting-room door. “It looks to me like a telegraph boy.”
“It couldn’t be, Crete,” said Luella’s mother impatiently, coming to see for herself. “Who would telegraph now that Hannah’s dead?”
Lucretia was short and dumpy, with the comfortable, patient look of the maiden aunt that knows she is indispensable because she will meekly take all the burdens that no one else wants to bear. Her sister could easily look over her head into the hall, and her gaze was penetrative and alert.
“I’m sure I don’t know, Carrie,” said Lucretia apprehensively; “but I’m all of a tremble. Telegrams are dreadful things.”