
I've thought of something amusing for the winter, I said as we drew into a half-circle around the glorious wood-fire in Uncle Alec's kitchen. It had been a day of wild November wind, closing down into a wet, eerie twilight. Outside, the wind was shrilling at the windows and around the eaves, and the rain was playing on the roof. The old willow at the gate was writhing in the storm and the orchard was a place of weird music, born of all the tears and fears that haunt the halls of night. But little we cared for the gloom and the loneliness of the outside world; we kept them at bay with the light of the fire and the laughter of our young lips. We had been having a splendid game of Blind-Man's Buff. That is, it had been splendid at first; but later the fun went out of it because we found that Peter was, of malice prepense, allowing himself to be caught too easily, in order that he might have the pleasure of catching Felicity-which he never failed to do, no matter how tightly his eyes were bound. What remarkable goose said that love is blind? Love can see through five folds of closely-woven muffler with ease!
- THE GOLDEN ROAD
- FOREWORD
- THE GOLDEN ROAD
- CHAPTER I. A NEW DEPARTURE
- CHAPTER II. A WILL, A WAY AND A WOMAN
- CHAPTER III. THE CHRISTMAS HARP
- CHAPTER IV. NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS
- CHAPTER V. THE FIRST NUMBER OF "OUR MAGAZINE"
- CHAPTER VI. GREAT-AUNT ELIZA'S VISIT
- CHAPTER VII. WE VISIT COUSIN MATTIE'S
- CHAPTER VIII. WE VISIT PEG BOWEN
- CHAPTER IX. EXTRACTS FROM THE FEBRUARY AND MARCH NUMBERS OF "OUR MAGAZINE"
- CHAPTER X. DISAPPEARANCE OF PADDY
- CHAPTER XI. THE WITCH'S WISHBONE
- CHAPTER XII. FLOWERS O' MAY
- CHAPTER XIII. A SURPRISING ANNOUNCEMENT
- CHAPTER XIV. A PRODIGAL RETURNS
- CHAPTER XV. THE RAPE OF THE LOCK
- CHAPTER XVI. AUNT UNA'S STORY
- CHAPTER XVII. AUNT OLIVIA'S WEDDING
- CHAPTER XVIII. SARA RAY HELPS OUT
- CHAPTER XIX. BY WAY OF THE STARS
- CHAPTER XX. EXTRACTS FROM "OUR MAGAZINE"
- CHAPTER XXI. PEG BOWEN COMES TO CHURCH
- CHAPTER XXII. THE YANKEE STORM
- CHAPTER XXIII. A MISSIONARY HEROINE
- CHAPTER XXIV. A TANTALIZING REVELATION
- CHAPTER XXV. THE LOVE STORY OF THE AWKWARD MAN
- (Written by the Story Girl)
- CHAPTER XXVI. UNCLE BLAIR COMES HOME
- CHAPTER XXVII. THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH
- CHAPTER XXVIII. THE PATH TO ARCADY
- CHAPTER XXIX. WE LOSE A FRIEND
- CHAPTER XXX. PROPHECIES
- CHAPTER XXXI. THE LAST NUMBER OF OUR MAGAZINE
- CHAPTER XXXII. OUR LAST EVENING TOGETHER
- CHAPTER XXXIII. THE STORY GIRL GOES
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