Roe, Edward Payson, 1838-1888 [1874], Opening a chestnut burr. (Dodd & Mead, New York) [word count] [eaf669T].
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Preliminaries
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Lillian Gary Taylor; Robert C. Taylor; Eveline V. Maydell, N. York 1923.
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Opening a Chestnut Burr.
BY
Rev. E. P. ROE,
Author of “Barriers Burned Away,” “What Can She Do?” “Play
and Profit in my Garden.”
As woman from the Garden of the Lord
Led fallen man in sorrow, fear and shame,
To where, unblest, he saw the burning sword
Between lost Eden and the desert flame;
So still she leads, and though at times from good;
She now supremely holds the sacred power,
To win from deserts where the exiles brood,
And lead them back within their ancient dower.
NEW YORK:
DODD & MEAD, PUBLISHERS,
762 Broadway.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
DODD & MEAD,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Lange, Little & Co.,
printers, electrotypers and stereotypers,
108 to 114 Wooster Street, N. Y.
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Dedication
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This Book
IS
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
TO
MY WIFE.
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PREFACE.
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IN sending this, my fourth venture, out upon the
uncertain waters of public opinion, I shall say
but few words of preface. In the past I have received
considerable well-deserved criticism from the
gentlemen of the caustic pen, but so far from having
any hard feeling towards them, I have rather
wondered that they found so much to say that was
favorable. How they will judge this simple October
story (if they think it worth while to judge
it at all) I leave to the future, and turn to those for
whom the book was really written.
In fancy, I see them around the glowing hearth
of quiet homes, such as I have tried to describe in the
following pages, and hope that this new comer will
be welcomed for the sake of those that preceded it.
Possibly it may make friends of its own.
From widely separated parts of the country, and
from almost every class, I have received many and
cordial assurances that my former books were not
only sources of pleasure, but also of help and benefit,
and I am deeply grateful for the privilege of
unobtrusively entering so many households, and
saying words on that subject which is inseparable
from happiness in both worlds.
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I think the purpose of the book will become
apparent to the reader. The incidents and characters
are mainly imaginary.
Observation has shown me that there are many
in the world, like my hero, whose condition can be
illustrated by the following lines:
“Were some great ship all out of stores,
When half way o'er the sea,
Fit emblem of too many lives,
Such vessel doomed would be.”
Must there not be something fatally wrong in
that scheme of life which finds an heir of eternity
weary, listless, discouraged, while yet in the dawning
of existence? It is not in perishing things,
merely, to give back the lost zest. But a glad zest
and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most
jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes
such simple, truthful natures, as that of my heroine;
and in the sphere of quiet homes—not elsewhere—
I believe that woman can best rule and save the
world.
West Point, September, 1874.
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CHAPTER I.
A Hero but not Heroic 13
CHAPTER II.
Opening a Chestnut Burr 32
CHAPTER III.
Morbid Brooding 47
CHAPTER IV.
How Miss Walton Managed People 54
CHAPTER V.
Was it an Accident? 62
CHAPTER VI.
Unexpected Chestnut Burrs 70
CHAPTER VII.
A Conspiracy 80
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CHAPTER VIII.
Witchcraft 94
CHAPTER IX.
Miss Walton advises a Hobby 105
CHAPTER X.
A Plot against Miss Walton 111
CHAPTER XI.
A Drinking Song at a Prayer-Meeting 119
CHAPTER XII.
Foiled in one Direction 128
CHAPTER XIII.
Interpreting Chestnut Burrs 141
CHAPTER XIV.
A Well-Meanin' Man 158
CHAPTER XV.
Miss Walton's Dream 170
CHAPTER XVI.
An Accident in the Mountains 191
CHAPTER XVII.
Promise or Die 204
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CHAPTER XVIII.
In the Depths 222
CHAPTER XIX.
Miss Walton made of Different Clay from Others 236
CHAPTER XX.
Miss Walton made of Ordinary Clay 257
CHAPTER XXI.
Passion and Penitence 278
CHAPTER XXII.
Not a Heroine but a Woman 294
CHAPTER XXIII.
Gregory's Final Conclusion 310
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Worm-infested Chestnut—Gregory tells the Worst. 322
CHAPTER XXV.
The Old Home in Danger—Gregory Retrieves Himself 348
CHAPTER XXVI.
Changes in Gregory 371
CHAPTER XXVII.
Pleading for Life and Love 384
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
What a Lover could do 399
CHAPTER XXIX.
Defending Shadows 418
CHAPTER XXX.
Kept from the Evil 440
CHAPTER XXXI.
“That Means You and Me.” 454
CHAPTER XXXII.
At Sea—A Mysterious Passenger 488
CHAPTER XXIII.
A Collision at Sea—What a Christian could do 504
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Unmasked 525
CHAPTER XXXV.
The Chestnut Burr Again 548
Roe, Edward Payson, 1838-1888 [1874], Opening a chestnut burr. (Dodd & Mead, New York) [word count] [eaf669T].
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