By Meredith Nicholson

THE POET. Illustrated.

OTHERWISE PHYLLIS. With frontispiece in color.

THE PROVINCIAL AMERICAN AND OTHERPAPERS.

A HOOSIER CHRONICLE. With Illustrations.

THE SIEGE OF THE SEVEN SUITORS. Withillustrations.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston and New York

THE POET

(p. 3)

POOR MARJORIE

THE POET

BY
MEREDITH NICHOLSON

WITH PICTURES BY FRANKLIN BOOTH
AND DECORATIONS BY W. A. DWIGGINS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1914

Published October 1914

ILLUSTRATIONS

“Poor Marjorie!” (Page 3)	Frontispiece
“Every trifling thing had to be argued”	74
The approaching canoe	110
“Elizabeth!”	188

PART ONE

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PART ONE

I

“The lonesomeness of that little girl overthere is becoming painful,” said the Poet fromhis chair by the hedge. “I can’t make outwhether she’s too dressed up to play orwhether it’s only shyness.”

“Poor Marjorie!” murmured Mrs. Waring.“We’ve all coaxed her to play, but she won’tbudge. By the way, that’s one of the saddestcases we’ve had; it’s heartbreaking, discouraging.Little waifs like Marjorie, whose fathers[4]and mothers can’t hit it off, don’t have a fairchance,—they are handicapped from thestart.—Oh, I thought you knew; that’s theRedfields’ little girl.”

The Poet gazed with a new intentness at thedark-haired child of five who stood ri

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THE POET

ILLUSTRATIONS

PART ONE

I

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