The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
William Dean Howells Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews John Kendrick Bangs Alice Brown Mary Stewart Cutting Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Henry James Elizabeth Garver Jordan Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Henry Van Dyke Mary Heaton Vorse Edith Wyatt · English
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The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
William Dean Howells Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews John Kendrick Bangs Alice Brown Mary Stewart Cutting Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Henry James Elizabeth Garver Jordan Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Henry Van Dyke Mary Heaton Vorse Edith Wyatt · English
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I. THE FATHER, by William Dean Howells As soon as we heard the pleasant news—I suppose the news of an engagement ought always to be called pleasant—it was decided that I ought to speak first about it, and speak to the father. We had not been a great while in the neighborhood, and it would look less like a bid for the familiar acquaintance of people living on a larger scale than ourselves, and less of an opening for our own intimacy if they turned
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