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| THE HAPPY FAMILY |
| ON THE STAIRCASE |
| THE CHASTE WIFE |
| SHOPS AND HOUSES |
| NOCTURNE |
| SEPTEMBER |
| COQUETTE |
| Coquette |
| September |
| Shops and Houses |
| Nocturne |
| The Chaste Wife |
| On the Staircase |
| The Happy Family |
| The Casement |
| The Young Idea |
| The Merry Heart |
| George Gissing |
| A Critical Study |
| R. L. Stevenson |
| A Critical Study |
AUTHOR OF "SEPTEMBER," "SHOPS AND HOUSES," "NOCTURNE," ETC.
COPYRIGHT, 1921,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
It was Saturday night—a winter night in which the wind hummed throughevery draughty crevice between the windows and under the doors and downthe chimneys. Outside, in the Hornsey Road, horse-omnibuses rattled byand the shops that were still open at eleven o'clock glistened withlight. Up the road, at the butcher's just below the Plough public-house,a small crowd lingered, turning over scraps of meat, while the butcherhimself, chanting "Lovely, lovely, lovely!" in a kind of ecstasy,plunged again into a fresh piece of meat the attractive legend, "Oh,mother, look! Three ha'pence a pound!" Just over the way, at the SupplyStores, they h