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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1916 Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Subjects: American fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III MR. FARLEY BECOMES EXPLICIT The Farleys had lived for twenty years in an old- fashioned square brick house surrounded by maples. The lower floor comprised a parlor, sitting-room, and dining-room, with a library on the side. The library had been Farley's den, where he smoked his pipe and read his newspapers. The bookcases that lined the walls had rarely been opened; they contained the Waverley Novels, Dickens's Works complete, and a wide range of miscellaneous fiction, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, most of Mark Twain, Tourg6e's novel of Reconstruction, A Fool's Errand, Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, and a number of Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney's stories for girls -- these latter reminiscent of Nan's girlhood. The brown volumes of Messages and Papers of the Presidents were massed on the bottom shelves invincibly with half a dozen Reports of the State Geological Survey. The doors of the black-walnut bookcases were warped so that the contents were accessible only after patient tugging. Half the books were upside-down -- and had been since the last house-cleaning. The room presented an inhospitable front to literature, and the other arts fared no better elsewhere in the house. A steelengraving of the Parthenon on the dining-room wall confronted a crude print of the Jane E. Newcomb, an Ohio River packet on which Farley had been second mate -- and an efficient one -- in...

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