Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948 / 2008-07-15 00:00:00

EBOOK BELL IN THE FOG ***


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[Illustration: GERTRUDE ATHERTON]

The
Bell in the Fog
And Other Stories

By
Gertrude Atherton
Author of
"Rulers of Kings" "The Conqueror" etc.

New York and London
Harper & Brothers
Publishers :: 1905

To
The Master
Henry James


Contents
I. THE BELL IN THE FOG
II. THE STRIDING PLACE
III. THE DEAD AND THE COUNTESS
IV. THE GREATEST GOOD OF THE GREATEST NUMBER
V. A MONARCH OF A SMALL SURVEY
VI. THE TRAGEDY OF A SNOB
VII. CROWNED WITH ONE CREST
VIII. DEATH AND THE WOMAN
IX. A PROLOGUE (TO AN UNWRITTEN PLAY)
X. TALBOT OF URSULA


I
The Bell in the Fog

I
The great author had realized one of the dreams of his ambitious
youth, the possession of an ancestral hall in England. It was not so
much the good American's reverence for ancestors that inspired the
longing to consort with the ghosts of an ancient line, as artistic
appreciation of the mellowness, the dignity, the aristocratic aloofness
of walls that have sheltered, and furniture that has embraced,
generations and generations of the dead.
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