The Wishing Carpet

About this eBook

Author

Mitchell, Ruth Comfort, 1882-1954

Original Publication

United States: D. Appleton and Company, 1926.

Credits

D A Alexander, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by University of California libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Mills and mill-work -- Fiction

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 71301

Release Date

July 30, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.THE WISHING CARPET
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4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.Untitled
7. 7.CONTENTS
8. 8.CHAPTER I Glenwood Darrow, looking only at the eyes, overlooks the chin, and a rarely beautiful Persian rug is overshadowed by golden oak.
9. 9.CHAPTER II Mrs. Darrow seeks further for gentility, and her daughter has her hair pulled and doesn’t mind it.
10. 10.CHAPTER III Miss Ada Tenafee is faithful to ancestor worship, while the Darrows weave a golden legend about a golden lad.
11. 11.CHAPTER IV Granny Mander’s curse is potent: the hawk comes down to feed in the barnyard.
12. 12.CHAPTER V Dr. Darrow damns the first families with his last breath, and little Miss Nancy Carey meets the young mountaineer.
13. 13.CHAPTER VI Mr. ’Gene Carey finds a right-hand man for the Altonia, and Glen Darrow joins the noble army of labor.
14. 14.CHAPTER VII Luke Manders agrees with her entirely, and Southern Europe contributes some of its culls to the mill, notably one Black Orlo, whose vitriolic utterances the doctor’s daughter finds nourishing.
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII Miss Ada Tenafee rejoices to have her protégée receive two callers in one afternoon, and Miss Nancy Carey sees Luke Manders again.
16. 16.CHAPTER IX Glen Darrow dines for the first time in her life and tells her hostesses her opinion of Peter Parker of Pasadena; later confides to her sleepless pillow that she doesn’t like being touched.
17. 17.CHAPTER X Glen trusts to time to correct her peculiarities, and occupies herself with transforming her house to harmonize with her Wishing Carpet.
18. 18.CHAPTER XI Glen sets the day for her twentieth birthday, and grieves because her suitor is too busy to help her better conditions, while Mr. ’Gene Carey is crushed by the perfidy of Old Ben.
19. 19.CHAPTER XII Mrs. Eugenia Parker, President of the Federated Women’s Clubs, bitterly shares Black Orlo’s opinion that her son does not amount to much, in which Peter himself cordially concurs.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIII Mr. Peter Parker of Pasadena, visiting his mill for the first time, receives the right hand of fellowship and the cold shoulder in the space of an hour.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIV Peter soaks up impressions and rather fancies himself as a comedian, but neither Glen Darrow nor Henry Clay Bean find him funny.
22. 22.CHAPTER XV Mrs. Eugenia Parker receives that lowest form of human expression, an anonymous letter, and pays the doctor’s daughter a call.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVI Gloriana-Virginia proves that it was really a Wishing Carpet, after all!
24. 24.CHAPTER XVII Young Peter sees something he never saw before, and Glen finds that her theory about herself was wrong.
25. 25.CHAPTER XVIII Mrs. Eugenia Parker has the doubtful satisfaction of seeing her trifling son in action for the first time.
26. 26.CHAPTER XIX Glen Darrow, being her father’s daughter, decides that promises are made to be kept.
27. 27.CHAPTER XX Peter Parker of Pasadena is less of a fool than has been popularly supposed, and the golden legend is discovered to be tarnished brass.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXI Once more, The Wishing Carpet justifies itself, and Henry Clay Bean breaks the solemnity of a lifetime.
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32. 32.Untitled

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