The Project Gutenberg E-text of The Siege of The Seven Suitors
by Meredith Nicholson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Nicholson, Meredith, 1866-1947
- Title
- The Siege of the Seven Suitors
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Aunts -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 35942
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35942
- Release Date
- April 24, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1."Hezekiah"
- 2.THE SIEGE OF THE SEVEN SUITORS — I — MY FRIEND WIGGINS IS INTRODUCED — He continued chuckling to himself to attract my attention. — CHAPTER II — THE BEGINNING OF MY ADVENTURE — "I beg your pardon, but this seems to be the seventh table." — III — I FALL INTO A BRIAR PATCH — She held the curtains apart. — This discussion between Cecilia Hollister and Hartley Wiggins. — IV — WE DINE IN THE GUN-ROOM — V — THE STRANGE BEHAVIOR OF A CHIMNEY — I seized the tongs and poker and began readjusting the logs. — VI — I DELIVER A MESSAGE — She threw up her gun and blazed away with a practised hand. — As I drove into the entrance. — VII — NINE SILK HATS CROSS A STILE — She emphasized it further by a peremptory wave of her arm. — VIII — CECILIA'S SILVER NOTE-BOOK — IX — I MEET A PLAYFUL GHOST — "Hit was one of 'is majesty's horfficers, sir," he answered hoarsely. — X — MY BEFUDDLEMENT INCREASES — She stood at her ease, with one hand resting lightly against the inexplicable chimney. — XI — I PLAY TRUANT — On a stone by the roadside sat Lord Arrowood. — XII — THE RIDDLE OF THE SIBYL'S LEAVES — Her eyes met mine gravely. — XIII — I DISCOVER TWO GHOSTS — He held out for my observation a pie. — XIV — LADY'S SLIPPER — Seated on a prodigious trunk frescoed with labels of a dozen foreign inns, I beheld Hezekiah! — XV — LOSS OF THE SILVER NOTE-BOOK — And I bent and kissed Miss Octavia's hand. — XVI — JACK O' LANTERN — The light of the lantern fell warmly upon Hezekiah's face. — XVII — SEVEN GOLD REEDS — She put it to her lips and blew. — XVIII — TROUBLE AT THE PRESCOTT ARMS — With one sweep of her crop she brushed to the floor the three piles of cards. — XIX — THE GHOST OF ADONIRAM CALDWELL — Miss Octavia first lifted out the remnants of a military uniform that lay on top. — XX — HEZEKIAH PARTITIONS THE KINGDOM — I espied a woman riding rapidly toward me.
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