Mrs. Day's Daughters

By Mann, Mary E.

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Title:	Mrs. Day's Daughters
Author:	Mann, Mary E.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter 1. Their Large Hours It was three o?clock in the morning when the guests danced Sir Roger de Coverley at Mrs. William Day?s New Year?s party. They would as soon have thought of having supper without trifle, tipsy?cake, and syllabub, in those days, as of finishing the evening without Sir Roger. Dancing had begun at seven?thirty. The lady at the piano was drooping with weariness. Violin and ?cello yawned over their bows; only spasmodically and half?heartedly the thrum and jingle of the tambourine fell on the ear. The last was an instrument not included in the small band of the professional musicians, but was twisted and shaken and thumped on hand and knee and toe by no less an amateur than Mr. William Day himself. The master of the house was too stout for dancing, of too restless and irritable a temperament for the role of looker?on. He loved noise, always; above all, noise made by himself. He thought no entertainment really successful at which you could hear yourself speak. He would have preferred a big drum whereby to inspirit the dancers, but failing that, clashed the bells of the tambourine in their ears. ?The tambourine is such fun!? the dancers always said, who, out of breath from polka, or schottische, or galop, paused at his side. ?A dance at your house would not be the same thing at all without your tambourine, Mr. Day.? He banged it the louder for such compliments, turned it on his broad thumb, shook it over his great head with its shock of sand?coloured and grey hair; making, as the more saturnine of his guests confided in each other, ?a most infernal row.?

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Mrs. Day's Daughters, 1 -- Mary E. Mann, 1 -- Chapter I. Their Large Hours, 2 -- Chapter II. Something Wrong At The Office, 9 -- Chapter III. Forcus's Family Ale, 14 -- Chapter IV. Disaster, 19 -- Chapter V. Deleah's Errand, 28 -- Chapter VI. Sour Misfortune, 30 -- Chapter VII. Husband And Father, 34 -- Chapter VIII. The Way Out, 37 -- Chapter IX. For The Widow And The Fatherless, 38 -- Chapter X. Exiles From Life's Revels, 44 -- Chapter XI. The Attractive Bessie, 48 -- Chapter XII. The Attractive Deleah, 56 -- Chapter XIII. The Gay, Gilded Scene, 62 -- Chapter XIV. A Tea?Party In Bridge Street, 67 -- Chapter XV. The Manchester Man, 73 -- Chapter XVI. For Bernard, 80 -- Chapter XVII. What Is It Now?, 87 -- Chapter XVIII. The Dangerous Scrooge, 92 -- Chapter XIX. When Beauty Calls, 97 -- Chapter XX. Sir Francis Makes A Call, 99 -- Chapter XXI. In For It!, 104 -- Chapter XXII. The Importunate Mr. Gibbon, 108 -- Chapter XXIII. Deleah Has No Dignity, 115 -- Chapter XXIV. The Cold?Hearted Fates, 120 -- Chapter XXV. To Make Reparation, 127 -- Chapter XXVI. A Householder, 130 -- Chapter XXVII. Promotion For Mrs. Day, 134 -- Chapter XXVIII. At Laburnum Villa, 137 -- Chapter XXIX. A Prohibition Cancelled, 144 -- Chapter XXX. Deleah Grows Up, 150 -- Chapter XXXI. Bessie's Hour, 154 -- Chapter XXXII. The Man With The Mad Eyes, 160 -- Chapter XXXIII. The Moment Of Triumph, 164 -- Mrs. Day's Daughters -- i