EBOOK THE OLD STONE HOUSE ***
This e-text was converted to ASCII by Wendy Crockett
from .pdf images provided for public use at:
http://www.cwru.edu/UL/preserve/general.htm
THE OLD STONE HOUSE
by ANNE MARCH
(CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON)
"He that goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed, shall
doubtless come again with joy and bring his sheaves with him."
--_Psalms cxxvi_.
CONTENTS
I.--THE FIVE COUSINS
II.--LIFE AT THE OLD STONE HOUSE
III.--THE EDITOR'S SANCTUM
IV.--HUGH
V.--FOURTH OF JULY
VI.--SUNDAY
VII.--THE PICNIC
VIII.--RIGHT AT LAST
IX.--THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER
X.--THE HOME-COMING
XI.--CONCLUSION
CHAPTER I.
THE FIVE COUSINS.
Aunt Faith sat alone on the piazza, and sad thoughts crowded into her
heart. It was her birthday,--the first day of June,--and she could
look back over more than half a century, with that mournful retrospect
which birthdays are apt to bring. Aunt Faith had seen trouble, and had
met affliction face to face. When she was still a bride, her husband
died suddenly and left her lonely forever; then, one by one, her
brothers and sisters had been taken, and she was made sole guardian of
their orphan children,--a flock of tender little lambs,--to be
nourished and protected from the cold and the rain, the snare and the
pitfalls, the tempter and the ravening wolf ever prowling around the
fold.
Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25