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    The Courting Of Lady Jane
    The Courting Of Lady Jane
    The Courting Of Lady Jane
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    The Courting Of Lady Jane

    By Josephine Daskam Bacon

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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    Josephine Daskam Bacon

    Josephine Daskam Bacon (Mrs. Selden Bacon) (born: Josephine Dodge Daskam) (February 17, 1876 – July 29, 1961) was an American writer of great versatility. She is chiefly known as a writer who made the point of having female protagonists. (Wikipedia)

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      The Courting Of Lady Jane - Josephine Daskam Bacon

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Courting Of Lady Jane, by Josephine Daskam

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      Title: The Courting Of Lady Jane

      Author: Josephine Daskam

      Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23368]

      Last Updated: January 5, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COURTING OF LADY JANE ***

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      THE COURTING OF LADY JANE

      By Josephine Daskam

      Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's Sons

      The colonel entered his sister's room abruptly, sat down on her bed, and scattered a drawerful of fluffy things laid out for packing.

      You don't seem to think about my side of the matter, he said gloomily. What am I to do here all alone, for Heaven's sake?

      That is so like a man, she murmured, one arm in a trunk. Let me see: party-boots, the children's arctics, Dick's sweater—did you think I could live here forever, Cal?

      Then you shouldn't have come at all. Just as I get thoroughly settled down to flowers in the drawing-room, and rabbits in a chafing-dish, and people for dinner, you skip off. Why don't you bring the children here? What did you marry into the navy for, anyway? Nagasaki! I wouldn't live in a place called Nagasaki for all that money could buy!

      You're cross, said Mrs. Dick placidly. Please get off that bath-wrapper. If you don't like to live alone—Six bath-towels, Dick's shoe-bag, my old muff (I hope and pray I'll remember that!) Helen's reefer—Why don't you marry?

      Marry? Marry! Are you out of your mind, Dosia? I marry!

      The colonel twisted his grayish mustache into points; a look of horror spread over his countenance.

      Men have done it, she replied seriously, and lived. Look at Dick.

      Look at him? But how? Who ever sees him? I've ceased to believe in him, personally. I can't look across the Pacific. Consider my age, Dosia; consider my pepper-and-salt hair; consider my bronchitis; consider—

      Consider your stupidity! As to your hair, I should hate to eat a salad dressed with that proportion of pepper. As to your age, remember you're only ten years ahead of me, and I expect to remain thirty-eight for some time.

      But forty-eight is centenarian to a girl of twenty-two, Dosia.

      The colonel

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