Odd, Or Even?

ODD, OR EVEN? -1881 - CONTENTS . ................. CHAP . PAGE . I BETWEEN 5 11 . So QUEER ............... 13 ........... 22 ........... 36 I11 . FARM-YARD AND KITCHEN IV . POITE TO A BUTTERFLY V . HIDE AND GO SEEK . ............ 44 V1 . HAY-SWATHS AND HIGH COURTESY ........ 48 V11 . SARELL AND EAST HOLLOW . ......... 54 V111 . GOOD AT A HOLD-BACK ............ 63 IX . THE EAST ROOM AT EAST HOLLOW . ...... 68 X . THE GREAT PYRAHID . ........... 81 XI . BRACKETS AND INTERLINES .......... 91 XI1 . THE RED QUARRIES ............. 97 XI11 . How MUCH MORE DOES IT TAKE ....... 102 XIV . MOUNTAIN FOGS AND CLEAR-RUNNING WATERS ... 109 XV . IN THE RING OR ON THE ROAD . ....... 136 XVL T HAY E PARLOR XVII . TEIE DAM PASTURE ............. 140 ............. 151 .......... 174 XVIII . THE POWER AND THE PARTS XIX . A WORLD FOR ME ............. 193 XX . NIGHT AND MORNING . ........... 203 XXI . SUNDAY. AND A SERXON ........... 213 XXII . MONDAY . ............... 231 ........ 240 XXIII . PLANS. A PLOT. AND A PLEADING XXIV . DAY-DAWN IN TIIE DAIRY ........... 255 XXV . IT BIUST TAKE CARE OF ITSELF . . . . . . . . B 261 ENOUOH 266 ... XXVI NOT HALF GOOD ............ iv CONTEXTS . CHAP . PAGE XXVII . OLD THUNDER . ............ 273 XSVIII . THE SENSE OF IT . ............ 284 XSIX . CROWNED HEAD . ............. 290 XXX . SAFEGUARDS ............... 313 C XXXI . BOLTS AND BONDS . ............ 327 . ........... XXXII CASH AND INVESTMENT XXXIII . WALKING PRIDE ............ XXXIV . HOBGOBLINS .............. XXXV . SHOWS AND DISQUIETS . .......... XXXVI . DRIFT ................ XXSVII . TWENTY QUESTIONB ............ XSXVIII . THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER .......... SXXIX BENEDICITE . ............... XL1 . NUMBER NINE.............. 408 XLII . THE FREE-WILL CHANCE .......... 419 XLIV . SARELL .... NEWS ... ........ ................. ....... .............. GIVES ODDS AND CONES OUT EVEN 441 XLV . NINE FROM NOUGHT. AND FELLAIDEN XLVI . THOSE DOZEN YEARS OF OURS 474 XLVII . CHIMES 481 XLVIII . OUTSIDE WITH A DARK LANTERN 488 XLIX . ROSE-GLORIES 497 462 ODD, OR EVEN CHAPTER I. BETWEEN. MIDDLE-CLASS I ve no patience said Miss Ammah, with her nose nearly horizontal. We re all middle-class. We re all between somebody and somebody else. But you neednt be middling. It S only middling that S mean, anywhere. And yet, Miss Ammah, your grocers family - rocer l What S a grocer l Look in your Webster Your father S a grocer. Why, Miss Ammah Papa sells cargoes. Miss Ammah was great on etymologies. What his vessels are charged with, that is L Of course - I suppose so. The two first words came at once, the last three dubiously and slower as if the girl, be- tkeen her periods, mistrusted that she might be jumping into a trap. And Mr. Raxley sells what his warehouse is charged with. Where S the difference l Euphemia spoke now. It had been Helen before. Papa studies the world, she said proudly. He brings things over the seas. The other man takes what he brings and sells it over a counter. The other mail studies his neighborhood and what his neighbors want but you have reason, Euphemia. .Only they both stand between that is what I said. And it is a round and round. Nobody is actually bottom and nobody is actually top, any more than they are on the globe. And yet there is a top and a bottom and a between to every- thing that exists on the globe, said Frances, - society, 6 ODD, OR EVEN schools, families. I know, for I m abetween and that S why nobody settles or thinks where I m to go this summer. Pheinie and Helen have got invitations, - they always have, - and the little ones are to go with mamma but I m skipped, so far. I suppose I shall be perceived and picked up, somehow, in the packing, as other odds and ends are...