The House of Martha
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THE LADY OR THE TALKER? Really and truly, all our hero wants is someone to listen to him You see, it's quite simple. He had a wonderful time in Europe. He wants to tell folks back in the States all his adventures. But our hero, in the nineteenth century, confronts a problem that has only gotten worse in the twenty-first. ,"" . . the ears of the present generation are not purveyors to the mind; they are merely agents of the tongue, who watch for breaks or weak places in the speech of others in order that their principal may rush in and hold the field . . . the conviction came to me that nowaday...
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- THE HOUSE OF MARTHA
- BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1891 Copyright, 1891, By FRANK B. STOCKTON. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
- CONTENTS.
- THE HOUSE OF MARTHA.
- I.
- MY GRANDMOTHER AND I.
- II.
- RELATING TO MY YEAR IN EUROPE.
- III.
- THE MODERN USE OF THE HUMAN EAR.
- IV.
- I OBTAIN A LISTENER.
- V.
- CHESTER WALKIRK.
- VI.
- MY UNDER-STUDY.
- VII.
- MY BOOK.
- VIII.
- THE MALARIAL ADJUNCT.
- IX.
- WALKIRK'S IDEA.
- X.
- THE PLAN OF SECLUSION.
- XI.
- MY NUN.
- XII.
- EZA.
- XIII.
- MY FRIEND VESPA.
- XIV.
- I FAVOR PERMANENCY IN OFFICE.
- XV.
- HOW WE WENT BACK TO GENOA.
- XVI.
- I RUN UPON A SANDBAR.
- XVII.
- REGARDING THE ELUCIDATION OF NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS.
- XVIII.
- AN ILLEGIBLE WORD.
- XIX.
- GRAY ICE.
- XX.
- TOMASO AND I.
- XXI.
- LUCILLA AND I.
- XXII.
- I CLOSE MY BOOK.
- XXIII.
- RACKET ISLAND.
- XXIV.
- THE INTERPOLATION.
- XXV.
- ABOUT SYLVIA.
- XXVI.
- MOTHER ANASTASIA.
- XXVII.
- A PERSON.
- XXVIII.
- THE FLOATING GROCERY.
- XXIX.
- FANTASY?
- XXX.
- A DISCOVERY.
- XXXI.
- TAKING UP UNFINISHED WORK.
- XXXII.
- TOMASO AND LUCILLA.
- XXXIII.
- THE DISTANT TOPSAIL.
- XXXIV.
- THE CENTRAL HOTEL.
- XXXV.
- MONEY MAKES THE MARE GO.
- XXXVI.
- IN THE SHADE OF THE OAK.
- XXXVII.
- THE PERFORMANCE OF MY UNDER-STUDY.
- XXXVIII.
- A BROKEN TRACE.
- XXXIX.
- A SOUL WHISPER?
- XL.
- AN INSPIRATION.
- XLI.
- MISS LANISTON.
- XLII.
- THE MOTHER SUPERIOR.
- XLIII.
- WAS HIS HEART TRUE TO POLL?
- XLIV.
- PRELIMINARY BROTHERHOOD.
- XLV.
- I MAKE COFFEE AND GET INTO HOT WATER.
- XLVI.
- GOING BACK FOR A FRIEND.
- XLVII.
- I INTEREST MISS LANISTON.
- XLVIII.
- IN A COLD, BARE ROOM.
- XLIX.
- MY OWN WAY.
- L.
- MY BOOK OF TRAVEL.
- LI.
- A LOOSE END.
- LII.
- I FINISH THE SICILIAN LOVE-STORY.
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