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    A Likely Story
    A Likely Story
    A Likely Story
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    A Likely Story

    By William Dean Howells

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    A Likely Story
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    William Dean Howells

    William Dean Howells was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings.

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      A Likely Story - William Dean Howells

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      Title: A Likely Story

      Author: William Dean Howells

      Release Date: March 11, 2009 [EBook #28305]

      Language: English

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      A

      Likely Story

      by

      W. D. Howells.

      Harper's

      Black & White

      Series

      A LIKELY STORY

      THE MOST EXCITING PART.

      A LIKELY STORY

      Farce

      BY

      W. D. HOWELLS

      ILLUSTRATED

      NEW YORK

      HARPER AND BROTHERS

      1894

      Harper's Black and White Series.

      Illustrated. 32mo, Cloth, 50 cents each.

      LATEST ISSUES:

      Five O'Clock Tea. Farce. By W. D. Howells.

      The Mouse-Trap. Farce. By W. D. Howells.

      A Likely Story. Farce. By W. D. Howells.

      This Picture and That. A Comedy. By Brander Matthews.

      Travels in America 100 Years Ago. By Thomas Twining.

      My Year in a Log Cabin. By William Dean Howells.

      Evening Dress. A Farce. By William Dean Howells.

      The Work of Washington Irving. By Charles Dudley Warner.

      Edwin Booth. By Laurence Hutton.

      Phillips Brooks. By Rev. Arthur Brooks, D.D.

      The Decision of the Court. A Comedy. By Brander Matthews.

      George William Curtis. By John White Chadwick.

      The Unexpected Guests. A Farce. By William Dean Howells.

      Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa. By Henry M. Stanley.

      The Rivals. By François Coppée.

      Whittier: Notes of his Life and of his Friendships. By Annie Fields.

      The Japanese Bride. By Naomi Tamura.

      Giles Corey, Yeoman. By Mary E. Wilkins.

      Coffee and Repartee. By John Kendrick Bangs.

      Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.

      For sale by all booksellers, or will be sent by the publishers, postage prepaid, on receipt of price.

      Copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers.

      Copyright, 1885, by Harper & Brothers.

      Copyright, 1885, by W. D. Howells.

      All rights reserved.

      CONTENTS

      Page

      MR. AND MRS. WILLIS CAMPBELL 7

      MR. WELLING; MR. CAMPBELL 29

      MRS. CAMPBELL; MR. WELLING; MR. CAMPBELL 34

      JANE; MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 39

      MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 41

      JANE; MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 43

      MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 44

      MISS RICE, MISS GREENWAY, and the OTHERS 48

      MISS GREENWAY; MR. WELLING 50

      MISS RICE; then MR. and MRS. CAMPBELL, and the OTHERS 53

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      THE MOST EXCITING PART OF IT Frontispiece

      MR. WELLING EXPLAINS Facing page 52

      A LIKELY STORY

      I

      MR. AND MRS. WILLIS CAMPBELL

      Mrs. Campbell: Now this, I think, is the most exciting part of the whole affair, and the pleasantest. She is seated at breakfast in her cottage at Summering-by-the-Sea. A heap of letters of various stylish shapes, colors, and superscriptions lies beside her plate, and irregularly straggles about among the coffee-service. Vis-à-vis with her sits Mr. Campbell behind a newspaper. "How prompt they are! Why, I didn't expect to get half so many answers yet. But that shows that where people have nothing to do but attend to their social duties they are always prompt—even the men; women, of course, reply early anyway, and you don't really care for them; but in town the men seem to put it off till the very last moment, and then some of them call when it's over to excuse themselves for not having come after

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