Dr. Lavendar's people

Literature & Fiction

Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

Contemporary

Scholarly Press

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.

Dr. Lavendar's people (The American short story series, v. 46)

Garrett Press

Excerpt: ... have you been mother's beau?" And Thomas, rosy, handsome, looking at least ten years younger than his Amelia, would say: "Well, let's see: forty-one years" (or two or three, as the case might be), "eleven months, twenty-nine days, twenty-three hours, and forty minutes; she was twenty minutes old when I first laid eyes on her, and during those twenty minutes I was heart-whole." But Mrs. Dilworth, smiling vaguely behind her coffee-cups, would protest: "I never heard anything about it, Tom, until you were sixteen." And then the girls would declare that they must be told just what father said when he was sixteen and mother was twelve. But Thomas drew the line at that. "Come! come! you mustn't talk about love-making. As for marrying, I don't mean to let you girls get married at all. And Ned here had better not let me catch him thinking of such nonsense until he's twenty-five. He can get married (if I like the girl) when he is twenty-eight." "You got married at twenty-two, sir," Edwin demurred. "If you can find a woman like your mother, you can get married at twenty-two. But you can't. They don't make 'em any more. So you've got to wait. And remember, I've decided not to let Mary and Nancy get married, ever. I don't propose to bring up a brace of long-legged girls, and clothe 'em and feed 'em and pay their doctors' bills, and then, just as they get old enough to amount to anything and quit being nuisances, hand 'em over to another fellow. No, sir! You've got to stay at home with me. Do you understand?" The girls screamed at this, and flung themselves upon him to kiss him and pull his hair. No wonder Old Chester was shocked. Yet, in spite of such happenings, Thomas and Amelia Dilworth were of the real Old Chester. They were not tainted with newness

Dr Lavendar's People

Ayer Co. Pub

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Florida Days

Travel

United States

Pineapple Pr Inc

Florida days

Harlow, Louis K. 1850-1913

Genre Fiction

Legare Street Press

The Old Garden and other verses

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