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An Encore, by Margaret Deland
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Title: An Encore
Author: Margaret Deland
Release Date: July 1, 2009 [EBook #29284]
Language: English
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WHEN ALFRED PRICE FELL IN LOVE WITH MISS LETTY MORRIS]
An Encore
BY
MARGARET DELAND
AUTHOR OF
"THE AWAKENING OF HELENA RICHIE" "DR. LAVENDER'S PEOPLE" "OLD CHESTER TALES" ETC. ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY ALICE BARBER STEPHENS
NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS MCMVII
Copyright, 1904, 1907, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
All rights reserved. Published October, 1907.
Illustrations
"WHEN ALFRED PRICE FELL IN LOVE WITH MISS LETTY MORRIS" Frontispiece
"THE CAPTAIN AND CYRUS WERE AFRAID OF GUSSIE" Facing p 18
"THERE WAS A LITTLE SILENCE, AND THEN DR. LAVENDER BEGAN" " 76
An Encore
According to Old Chester, to be romantic was just one shade less reprehensible than to put on airs. Captain Alfred Price, in all his seventy years, had never been guilty of putting on airs, but certainly he had something to answer for in the way of ro