A Bicycle of Cathay
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I was beginning to move more rapidly along the little path, well worn by many rubber tires, which edged the broad roadway, when I perceived the doctor's daughter standing at the gate of her father's front yard. As I knew her very well, and she happened to be standing there and looking in my direction, I felt that it would be the proper thing for me to stop and speak to her, and so I dismounted and proceeded to roll my bicycle up to the gate. As the doctor's daughter stood looking over the gate, her hands clasped the tops of the two central pickets. "Good-morning," said she. "I suppose, from yo...
Chapters (48)
- A BICYCLE OF CATHAY
- A Novel
- Author of "The Great Stone of Sardis" "The Associate Hermits" etc.
- Illustrated by
- Orson Lowell
- 1900
- List of Illustrations
- A BICYCLE OF CATHAY
- CHAPTER I
- THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER
- CHAPTER II
- A BAD TWIST
- CHAPTER III
- THE DUKE'S DRESSING-GOWN
- CHAPTER IV
- A BIT OF ADVICE
- CHAPTER V
- THE LADY AND THE CAVALIER
- CHAPTER VI
- THE HOLLY SPRIG INN
- CHAPTER VII
- MRS. CHESTER IS TROUBLED
- CHAPTER VIII
- ORSO
- CHAPTER IX
- A RUNAWAY
- CHAPTER X
- THE LARRAMIE FAMILY
- CHAPTER XI
- THE THREE McKENNAS
- CHAPTER XII
- BACK TO THE HOLLY SPRIG
- CHAPTER XIII
- A MAN WITH A LETTER
- CHAPTER XIV
- MISS EDITH IS DISAPPOINTED
- CHAPTER XV
- MISS WILLOUGHBY
- CHAPTER XVI
- AN ICICLE
- CHAPTER XVII
- A FORECASTER OF HUMAN PROBABILITIES
- CHAPTER XVIII
- REPENTANCE AVAILS NOT
- CHAPTER XIX
- BEAUTY, PURITY, AND PEACE
- CHAPTER XX
- BACK FROM CATHAY
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