Half an hour afterward, Clover heard them enter the house, and hurried down to the parlor.When she pushed aside the portière and entered, she paused in amazement and her heart leaped up, for Jack's arms were about Mildred and his lips were pressed to hers.They saw her, and in another instant she was beside them, her hands clasped in theirs.As she gazed at her sister, mute for joy, Mildred regarded her with a tender version of her beautiful smile."I believe," she said, "this lifts the last cloud from Clover's horizon.""Yes," answered the latter rather unsteadily; "the world never looked so bright to me as now. I think, Jack," turning to him, her face aglow, "heaven itself must have grown happier to-night."Van Tassel's eyes shone wistfully. "I hope he knows," he answered gently.* * * * * * * *STANDARD AND POPULARBOOKS OF FICTIONPUBLISHED BYHOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.Thomas Bailey Aldrich.The Story of a Bad Boy. Illustrated.Marjorie Daw and Other People. Short Stories. 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Half an hour afterward, Clover heard them enter the house, and hurried down to the parlor.
When she pushed aside the portière and entered, she paused in amazement and her heart leaped up, for Jack's arms were about Mildred and his lips were pressed to hers.
They saw her, and in another instant she was beside them, her hands clasped in theirs.
As she gazed at her sister, mute for joy, Mildred regarded her with a tender version of her beautiful smile.
"I believe," she said, "this lifts the last cloud from Clover's horizon."
"Yes," answered the latter rather unsteadily; "the world never looked so bright to me as now. I think, Jack," turning to him, her face aglow, "heaven itself must have grown happier to-night."
Van Tassel's eyes shone wistfully. "I hope he knows," he answered gently.
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STANDARD AND POPULAR
BOOKS OF FICTION
PUBLISHED BY
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
The Story of a Bad Boy. Illustrated.Marjorie Daw and Other People. Short Stories. With Frontispiece.Marjorie Daw and Other Stories. In Riverside Aldine Series.
These volumes are not identical in contents.
Prudence Palfrey. With frontispiece.The Queen of Sheba.The Stillwater Tragedy.Two Bites at a Cherry, and Other Tales.
Jane G. Austin.
Standish of Standish.Betty Alden.A Nameless Nobleman.Dr. LeBaron and his Daughters.
Colonial Novels, including above. 4 vols.
The Desmond Hundred.David Alden's Daughter, and other Stories.
Edward Bellamy.
Miss Ludington's Sister.Looking Backward: 2000-1887.
Helen Dawes Brown.
Two College Girls.The Petrie Estate.
Clara Louise Burnham.
Young Maids and Old.Next Door.Dearly Bought.No Gentlemen.A Sane Lunatic.The Mistress of Beech Knoll.Miss Bagg's Secretary.Dr. Latimer.
Edwin Lassetter Bynner.
Zachary Phips.Agnes Surriage.The Begum's Daughter.
These three Historical Novels, in box.
Penelope's Suitors.Damon's Ghost.An Uncloseted Skeleton. (Written with Lucretia P. Hale.)
Mary Hartwell Catherwood.
The Lady of Fort St. John.Old Kaskaskia.
Rose Terry Cooke.
Somebody's Neighbors. Stories.Happy Dodd.The Sphinx's Children. Stories.Steadfast.Huckleberries. Gathered from New England Hills. Short Stories.
Charles Egbert Craddock [Mary N. Murfree].
In the Tennessee Mountains. Short Stories.Down the Ravine. For Young People. Illustrated.The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains.In the Clouds.The Story of Keedon Bluffs.The Despot of Broomsedge Cove.Where the Battle was Fought.His Vanished Star.
James Fenimore Cooper.
Works. NewHousehold Edition. With Introductions to many of the volumes by Susan Fenimore Cooper, and Illustrations. In 32 volumes.
Sea Tales. First Series. NewHousehold Edition. With Introductions by Susan Fenimore Cooper. Illustrated. In 5 vols.
Sea Tales. Second Series. NewHousehold Edition. With Introductions by Susan Fenimore Cooper. Illustrated. In 5 vols.
Leather-Stocking Tales. NewHousehold Edition. With Portrait, Introductions, and Illustrations. In 5 vols.
Cooper Stories. Narratives of Adventure selected from Cooper's Works. Illustrated. Stories of the Prairie. Stories of the Woods. Stories of the Sea. 3 vols.
Mary Hallock Foote.
The Chosen Valley.The Led-Horse Claim. Illustrated.John Bodewin's Testimony.The Last Assembly Ball, and the Fate of a Voice.In Exile, and Other Stories.
Arthur Sherburne Hardy.
But Yet a Woman.The Wind of Destiny.Passe Rose.
Joel Chandler Harris.
Mingo, and other Sketches in Black and White.Nights with Uncle Remus. Illustrated.Baalam and his Master, and other Stories.
Uncle Remus and His Friends. Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads. With Sketches of Negro Character. With 12 illustrations by Frost.
Miriam Coles Harris.
Writings. New Edition, uniform.
Rutledge.Frank Warrington.The Sutherlands.Richard Vandermarck.St. Philip's.Missy.Happy-Go-Lucky.Phoebe.A Perfect Adonis.An Utter Failure.
Louie's Last term at St. Mary's (for Young People).Happy-Go-Lucky.
Blanche Willis Howard.
One Summer. New Popular Edition. Illustrated by Hoppin.Aulnay Tower.Aunt Serena.Guenn. Illustrated.The Open Door.A Fellowe and His Wife. Collaborated with William Sharp.No Heroes. A Story for Boys. Illustrated.
William Dean Howells.
Their Wedding Journey. Illustrated.A Chance Acquaintance. Illustrated.A Foregone Conclusion.The Lady of the Aroostook.The Undiscovered Country.The Minister's Charge.Indian Summer.The Rise of Silas Lapham.A Fearful Responsibility, etc.A Modern Instance.A Woman's Reason.Dr. Breen's Practice.The Sleeping-Car, and other Farces.
Rev. George A. Jackson.
The Son of a Prophet.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Elsie Venner.The Guardian Angel.A Mortal Antipathy.
Augustus Hoppin.
Recollections of Auton House. Illustrated by the Author.A Fashionable Sufferer. Illustrated by the Author.Two Compton Boys. Illustrated by the Author.
Henry James.
Watch and Ward.A Passionate Pilgrim, and other Tales.Roderick Hudson.The American.The Europeans.Confidence.The Portrait of a Lady.The Author of Beltraffio; Pandora; Georgina's Reasons;Four Meetings, etc.The Siege of London; The Pension Beaurepas;and The Point of View.Tales of Three Cities (The Impressions of a Cousin;Lady Barberina; A New-England Winter).Daisy Miller: A Comedy.The Tragic Muse. 2 vols.
Sarah Orne Jewett.
The King of Folly Island, and other People.Tales of New England. In Riverside Aldine Series.A White Heron, and Other Stories.A Marsh Island.A Country Doctor.Deephaven.Old Friends and New.Country By-Ways.The Mate of the Daylight, and Friends Ashore.Betty Leicester.Strangers and Wayfarers.A Native of Winby.
Ellen Olney Kirk.
Ciphers.The Story of Margaret Kent.Sons and Daughters.Queen Money.Better Times. Stories.A Midsummer Madness.A Lesson in Love.A Daughter of Eve.Walford.
Flora Haines Loughead.
The Man who was Guilty.The Abandoned Claim. A California Story for Young People.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps [Mrs. Ward].
The Gates Ajar.Beyond the Gates.The Gates Between.Men, Women, and Ghosts. Stories.Hedged In.The Silent Partner.The Story of Avis.Sealed Orders, and other Stories.Friends: A Duet.Dr. Zay.An Old Maid's Paradise, and Burglars in Paradise.The Master of the Magicians. Collaborated by ElizabethStuart Phelps and Herbert D. Ward.Come Forth. Collaborated by Elizabeth Stuart Phelpsand Herbert D. Ward.Fourteen to One. Short Stories.Donald Marcy.The Madonna of the Tubs. With Illustrations.Jack the Fisherman. Illustrated.
F. Hopkinson Smith.
Colonel Carter of Cartersville. With Illustrations.A Day at Laguerre's, and other Days.
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