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Pink and White Tyranny. Гарриет Бичер-Стоу
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Автор произведения Гарриет Бичер-Стоу
Жанр Языкознание
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Pink and White Tyranny
A Society Novel
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664602343
Table of Contents
CHAPTER II. WHAT SHE THINKS OF IT.
CHAPTER IV. PREPARATION FOR MARRIAGE.
CHAPTER V. WEDDING, AND WEDDING-TRIP.
CHAPTER VI. HONEY-MOON, AND AFTER.
CHAPTER VII. WILL SHE LIKE IT?
CHAPTER XI. NEWPORT; OR, THE PARADISE OF NOTHING TO DO.
CHAPTER XII. HOME À LA POMPADOUR.
CHAPTER XIII. JOHN’S BIRTHDAY.
CHAPTER XIV. A GREAT MORAL CONFLICT.
CHAPTER XV. THE FOLLINGSBEES ARRIVE.
CHAPTER XVI. MRS. JOHN SEYMOUR’S PARTY, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
CHAPTER XVII. AFTER THE BATTLE.
CHAPTER XVIII. A BRICK TURNS UP.
CHAPTER XIX. THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE.
CHAPTER XX. THE VAN ASTRACHANS.
CHAPTER XXI. MRS. FOLLINGSBEE’S PARTY, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
CHAPTER XXII. THE SPIDER-WEB BROKEN.
CHAPTER XXIII. COMMON-SENSE ARGUMENTS.
CHAPTER XXIV. SENTIMENT v. SENSIBILITY.
CHAPTER XXVIII. AFTER THE STORM.
PREFACE.
MY Dear Reader—This story is not to be a novel, as the world understands the word; and we tell you so beforehand, lest you be in ill-humor by not finding what you expected. For if you have been told that your dinner is to be salmon and green peas, and made up your mind to that bill of fare, and then, on coming to the table, find that it is beefsteak and tomatoes, you may be out of sorts; not because beefsteak and tomatoes are not respectable viands, but because they are not what you have made up your mind to enjoy.
Now, a novel, in our days, is a three-story affair—a complicated, complex, multiform composition, requiring no end of scenery and dramatis personæ, and plot and plan, together with trap-doors, pit-falls, wonderful escapes and thrilling dangers; and the scenes transport one all over the earth—to England, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, and Kamtschatka. But this is a little commonplace history, all about one man and one woman, living straight along in one little prosaic town in New England. It is, moreover, a story with a moral; and for fear that you shouldn’t find out exactly what the moral is, we shall adopt the plan of the painter who wrote under his pictures, “This is a bear,” and “This is a turtle-dove.” We shall tell you in the proper time succinctly just what the moral is, and send you off edified as if you had been hearing a sermon. So please to call this little sketch a parable, and wait for the exposition thereof.
PINK AND WHITE TYRANNY.
CHAPTER I.
FALLING IN LOVE.
Lillie.
“WHO is that beautiful creature?” said John Seymour, as a light, sylph-like form tripped up the steps of the veranda of the hotel where he was lounging away his summer vacation.
“That! Why, don’t you know, man? That is the celebrated, the divine Lillie Ellis, the most adroit ‘fisher of men’ that has been seen in our days.”
“By George, but she’s pretty, though!” said John, following with enchanted eyes the distant motions of the sylphide.
The vision that