Mistress Anne

Temple Bailey

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mistress Anne, by Temple BaileyThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: Mistress AnneAuthor: Temple BaileyIllustrator: F. Vaux WilsonRelease Date: October 30, 2007 [EBook #23246]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MISTRESS ANNE ***Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Online DistributedProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net and the booksmithsat http://www.eBookForge.netMISTRESS ANNE BYTEMPLE BAILEY AUTHOR OFCONTRARY MARY, Etc. FRONTISPIECE BYF. VAUX WILSON decoration G R O S S E T    &    D U N L A PP U B L I S H E R S    N E W  Y O R KMade in the United States of America SHE SHOWED HIM HER SCHOOLSHE SHOWED HIM HER SCHOOL COPYRIGHT1917 BYTHE PENNPUBLISHINGCOMPANY logo Made in U. S. A.Mistress AnneToP. V. B.who sees the sunsets ContentsI. In Which Things Are Said of Diogenes and of a Lady With a Lantern 11II. In Which a Princess Serving Finds That the Motto of Kings Is Meaningless 21III. In Which the Crown Prince Enters Upon His Own 36IV. In Which Three Kings Come to Crossroads 51V. In Which Peggy Takes the Center of the Stage 62VI. In Which a Gray Plush Pussy Cat Supplies a Theme 77VII. In Which Geoffrey Writes of Soldiers and Their Souls 91VIII. ...

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mistress Anne, by
Temple Bailey
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no
cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,
give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: Mistress Anne
Author: Temple Bailey
Illustrator: F. Vaux Wilson
Release Date: October 30, 2007 [EBook #23246]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
MISTRESS ANNE ***
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MISTRESS ANNE

BY
TEMPLE BAILEY

AUTHOR OF
CONTRARY MARY, Etc.


FRONTISPIECE BY
F. VAUX WILSON

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G  R  O  S  S  E  T        &        D  U  N  L  A  P
P  U  B  L  I  S  H  E  R  S        N  E  W    Y  O  R  K
Made in the United States of America



SHE SHOWED HIM HER SCHOOL
SHE SHOWED HIM HER SCHOOL



COPYRIGHT
1917 BYTHE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY

logo

Made in U. S. A.
Mistress Anne
To
P. V. B.
who sees the sunsets

Contents
In Which Things Are Said of Diogenes and of a 1
I.
Lady With a Lantern 1
In Which a Princess Serving Finds That the Mot 2
II.
to of Kings Is Meaningless 1
III In Which the Crown Prince Enters Upon His Ow 3
. n 6IV 5
In Which Three Kings Come to Crossroads
. 1
6
V. In Which Peggy Takes the Center of the Stage
2
VI In Which a Gray Plush Pussy Cat Supplies a Th 7
. eme 7
VI In Which Geoffrey Writes of Soldiers and Their 9
I. Souls 1
1
VI
In Which a Green-Eyed Monster Grips Eve 1
II.
1
1
IX
In Which Anne, Passing a Shop, Turns In 3
.
6
1
In Which a Blind Beggar and a Butterfly Go To
X. 4
a Ball
9
1
XI In Which Brinsley Speaks of the Way to Win a
6
. Woman
0
1
XI In Which Eve Usurps an Ancient Masculine Priv
7
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8
1
XI
In Which Geoffrey Plays Cave Man 9
II.
6
2
XI In Which There Is Much Said of Marriage and o
1
V. f Giving in Marriage
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2
XX
In Which Anne Asks and Jimmie Answers 2
V.
6
X 2
VI In Which Pan Pipes to the Stars 3
. 9
X 2
VI In Which Fear Walks in a Storm 5
I. 6
X 2
In Which We Hear Once More of a Sandalwood
VI 7
Fan
II. 4
2
XI
In Which Christmas Comes to Crossroads 8
X.
4
2
X In Which a Dresden-China Shepherdess and a
9
X. Country Mouse Meet on Common Ground
8
X 3
XI In Which St. Michael Hears a Call 1
. 4
X 3
In Which Anne Weighs the People of Two Worl
XI 3
ds
I. 3
X 3
XI In Which Richard Rides Alone 4
II. 7
X 3
XI In Which St. Michael Finds Love in a Garden 6
V. 1Mistress Anne


CHAPTER I
In Which Things Are Said of Diogenes and
of a Lady With a Lantern.
The second day of the New Year came on Saturday.
The holiday atmosphere had thus been extended over
the week-end. The Christmas wreaths still hung in the
windows, and there had been an added day of
feasting. Holidays always brought people from town
who ate with sharp appetites.
It was mostly men who came, men who fished and
men who hunted. In the long low house by the river
one found good meals and good beds, warm fires in
winter and a wide porch in summer. There were few
luxuries, but it pleased certain wise Old Gentlemen to
take their sport simply, and to take pride in the
simplicity. They considered the magnificence of
modern camps and clubs vulgar, and as savoring
somewhat of riches newly acquired; and they
experienced an almost æsthetic satisfaction in the
contrast between the rough cleanliness of certain little
lodges along the Chesapeake and its tributary tide-
water streams, and the elegance of the Charles Streetmansions which they had, for the moment, left behind.
It was these Old Gentlemen who, in khaki and tweed,
each in its proper season, came to Peter Bower's, and
ate the food which Peter's wife cooked for them. They
went out in the morning fresh and radiant, and
returned at night, tired but still radiant, to sit by the fire
or on the porch, and, in jovial content, to tell of the
delights of earlier days and of what sport had been
before the invasion of the Philistines.
They knew much of gastronomic lore, these Old
Gentlemen, and they liked to talk of things to eat. But
they spoke of other things, and now and then they fell
into soft silences when a sunset was upon them or a
night of stars.
And they could tell stories! Stories backed by sparkling
wit and a nice sense of discrimination. On winter
nights or on holiday afternoons like this, as, gathered
around the fire they grew mildly convivial, the sound of
their laughter would rise to Anne Warfield's room
under the eaves; she would push back the papers
which held her to her desk, and wish with a sigh that
the laughter were that of young men, and that she
might be among them.
To-day, however, she was not at her desk. She was
taking down the decorations which had made the little
room bright during the brief holiday. To-morrow she
would go back to school and to the forty children
whom she taught. Life would again stretch out before
her, dull and uneventful. The New Year would hold for
her no meaning that the old year had not held.It had snowed all of the night before, and from her
window she could see the river, slate-gray against the
whiteness. Out-of-doors it was very cold, but her own
room was hot with the heat of the little round stove.
With her holly wreaths in her arms, she stood
uncertain in front of it. She had thought to burn the
holly, but it had seemed to her, all at once, that to end
thus the vividness of berry and of leaf would be
desecration. Surely they deserved to die out in that
clear cold world in which they had been born and bred!
It was a fanciful thought, but she yielded to it. Besides,
there was Diogenes! She must make sure of his
warmth and comfort before night closed in.
She put on her red scarf and cap and, with the
wreaths in her arms, she went down-stairs. The Old
Gentlemen were in the front room and she had to
pass through. They rose to a man. She liked the
courtliness, and gave in return her lovely smile and a
little bow.
They gazed after her with frank admiration. "Who is
she?" asked one who was not old, and who, slim and
dark and with a black ribbon for his eye-glasses,
seemed a stranger in this circle.
"The new teacher of the Crossroads school. There
wasn't any place for her to board but this. So they
took her in."
"Pretty girl."
The Old Gentlemen agreed, but they did not discuss
her charms at length. They belonged to a generation