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    A British Islander From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
    A British Islander From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
    A British Islander From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
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    A British Islander From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899

    By Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      A British Islander From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 - Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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      Title: A British Islander

             From Mackinac And Lake Stories, 1899

      Author: Mary Hartwell Catherwood

      Release Date: October 30, 2007 [EBook #23255]

      Last Updated: January 5, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BRITISH ISLANDER ***

      Produced by David Widger

      A BRITISH ISLANDER

      From Mackinac And Lake Stories, 1899

      By Mary Hartwell Catherwood

           * This story is set down exactly as it was told by the

           Island Chronicler.

      Well, I wish you could have been here in Mrs. Gunning's day. She was the oddest woman on Mackinac. Not that she exerted herself to attract attention. But she was such a character, and her manners were so astonishing, that she furnished perennial entertainment to the few families of us constituting island society.

      She was an English woman, born in South Africa, and married to an American army surgeon, and had lived over a large part of the world before coming to this fort. She had no children. But her sister had married Dr. Gunning's brother. And the good-for-nothing pair set out to follow the English drum-beat around the world, and left a child for the two more responsible ones to rear. Juliana Gunning was so deaf she could not hear thunder. But she was quits with nature, for all that; a wonderfully alluring kind of girl, with big brown eyes that were better than ears, and that could catch the meaning of moving lips. It seemed to strangers that she merely evaded conversation; for she had a sweet voice, a little drawling, and was witty when she wanted to speak. Juliana couldn't step out of the surgeon's quarters to walk across the parade-ground

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