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OTHER STORIES

BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP

AUTHOR OF "AN ECHO OF PASSION," "NEWPORT," ETC.

FUNK & WAGNALLS

1884

NEW YORK
10 and 12 Dey Street

LONDON
44 Fleet Street

All Rights Reserved

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1884, by
FUNK & WAGNALLS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.


CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I. Her Eyes were Gray
CHAPTER II. The De Vines
CHAPTER III. Twilight
CHAPTER IV. A Vision
CHAPTER V. Birthday Tokens
CHAPTER VI. A New Lesson in Botany
CHAPTER VII. The Races, and the Motto
CHAPTER VIII. Adela's Legend
CHAPTER IX. Lance and Sylvester
CHAPTER X. The Likeness
CHAPTER XI. Lance Returns
CHAPTER XII. Sylv's Trouble
CHAPTER XIII. Lance and Adela
CHAPTER XIV. Dennie's Trouble
CHAPTER XV. Elbow-crook Swamp
CHAPTER XVI. "I Live, How Long I Trow Not"

MAJOR BARRINGTON'S MARRIAGE.

"BAD PEPPERS."

THREE BRIDGES.
I. The Importance of a Hat
II. Father, Daughter, And—who Else?
III. Listening
IV. The Third Bridge

IN EACH OTHER'S SHOES.


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CHAPTER I.

HER EYES WERE GRAY.

It might have been yesterday, but in simple fact it was three hundredyears ago, that something happened which has an important bearing onthis story of the present.

Antiquity is a great discourager of the sympathies: the centuries areapt to weigh like lead on an individual human sentiment. Yet we find itpleasant sometimes to throw off their weight, and thereby to discoverthat it is a mere feather in the scale as against the beating of aheart.

I know that when I speak of Guy Wharton as having been alive and in lovein the year 1587, you will feel a certain patronizing pity forhim—because he is not alive now. So do I. But then it is p

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