And So They Were Married
"'It isn't your husband's place to do your work and his own, too, my dear'" (p. 126)And So They Were
Married
By
Florence Morse Kingsley
Author of "Titus," "The
Singular Miss Smith," "The
Resurrection of Miss Cynthia"
With Illustrations
By W. B. King
New York
Dodd, Mead & Company
1908
Copyright, 1908
By THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
Copyright, 1908
By FLORENCE MORSE KINGSLEY[Pg 1]
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I |
| CHAPTER II |
| CHAPTER III |
| CHAPTER IV |
| CHAPTER V |
| CHAPTER VI |
| CHAPTER VII |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| CHAPTER IX |
| CHAPTER X |
| CHAPTER XI |
CHAPTER I
Dr. North's wife, attired in her dressing-gown and slippers, noiselesslytilted the shutter of the old-fashioned inside blind and peeredcautiously out. The moon was shining splendidly in the dark sky, and theempty street seemed almost as light as day. It had been snowing earlierin the evening, Mrs. North observed absent-mindedly, and the clingingdrifts weighed the dark evergreens on either side of the gate almost tothe ground. A dog barked noisily from his kennel in a neighbouring yard,and a chorus of answering barks acknowledged the signal; some one wascoming along the moonlit street. There were two figures, as Mrs. Northhad expected; she craned her plump neck anxiously forward as the gateclicked and a light girlish laugh floated up on the frosty air.
"Dear, dear!" she murmured, "I do hope Bessie will come right into thehouse.[Pg 2] It is too cold to stand outside talking."
Apparently the young persons below did not think so. They stood in thebright moonlight in full