BABYLON
By Grant Allen
(Cecil Power)
Author Of 'Philistia.' 'Strange Stories' Etc.
In Three Volumes
Vol. I.
With Twelve Illustrations By P. Macnab
London
Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly
1885
Original
Original
CONTENTS
CHAPTER III. PERNICIOUS LITERATURE.
CHAPTER IV. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY.
CHAPTER VI. ENTER A NEW ENGLANDER.
CHAPTER VII. THE DEACON FALTERS.
CHAPTER X. MINNA IMPROVES HERSELF.
CHAPTER XI. EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES.
CHAPTER XII. AN ARTISTIC ENGAGEMENT.
CHAPTER XIV. MINNA GIVES NOTICE.
CHAPTER I. RURAL AMERICA.
Whar's Hiram, Het?' Deacon Zephaniah Winthrop asked of his wife, tartly. 'Pears to me that boy's allus off somewhar, whenever he's wanted to do anything. Can't git along without him, any way, when we've got to weed the spring peppermint. Whar's he off, I say, Mehitabel?'
Mrs. Winthrop drew herself together from the peas she was languidly shelling, and answered in the dry withered tone of a middle-aged northern New Yorker, 'Wal, I s'pose, Zeph, he's gone down to the blackberry lot, most likely.'
'Blackberry lot,' Mr. Winthrop replied with a fine air of irony. 'Blackberry lot, indeed. What does he want blackberryin', I should like to know? I'll blackberry him, I kin tell you, whenever I ketch him. Jest you go an' holler for him, Het, an' ef he don't come ruther sooner'n lightnin', he'll ketch it, an' n