{"product_id":"2940013033016","title":"A HOOSIER CHRONICLE","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I.  My LADY OF THE CONSTELLATIONS            1\u003cbr\u003e    II.  SYLVIA GOES VISITING                    20\u003cbr\u003e   III.  A SMALL DINNER AT MRS. OWEN'S           39\u003cbr\u003e    IV.  WE LEARN MORE OF SYLVIA                 62\u003cbr\u003e     V.  INTRODUCING MR. DANIEL HARWOOD          79\u003cbr\u003e    VI.  HOME LIFE OF HOOSIER STATESMEN          89\u003cbr\u003e   VII.  SYLVIA AT LAKE WAUPEGAN                113\u003cbr\u003e  VIII.  SILK STOCKINGS AND BLUE OVERALLS       136\u003cbr\u003e    IX.  DANIEL HARWOOD RECEIVES AN OFFER       152\u003cbr\u003e     X.  IN THE BOORDMAN BUILDING               168\u003cbr\u003e    XI.  THE MAP ABOVE BASSETT'S DESK           193\u003cbr\u003e   XII.  BLURRED WINDOWS                        212\u003cbr\u003e  XIII.  THE WAYS OF MARIAN                     225\u003cbr\u003e   XIV.  THE PASSING OF ANDREW KELTON           246\u003cbr\u003e    XV.  A SURPRISE AT THE COUNTRY CLUB         257\u003cbr\u003e   XVI.  \"STOP, LOOK, LISTEN\"                   271\u003cbr\u003e  XVII.  A STROLL ACROSS THE CAMPUS             288\u003cbr\u003e XVIII.  THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD              297\u003cbr\u003e   XIX.  THE THUNDER OF THE CAPTAINS            321\u003cbr\u003e    XX.  INTERVIEWS IN TWO KEYS                 350\u003cbr\u003e   XXI.  A SHORT HORSE SOON CURRIED             374\u003cbr\u003e  XXII.  THE GRAY SISTERHOOD                    393\u003cbr\u003e XXIII.  A HOUSE-BOAT ON THE KANKAKEE           403\u003cbr\u003e  XXIV.  A WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY BALL           418\u003cbr\u003e   XXV.  THE LADY OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE          439\u003cbr\u003e  XXVI.  APRIL VISTAS                           460\u003cbr\u003e XXVII.  HEAT LIGHTNING                         474\u003cbr\u003eXXVIII.  A CHEERFUL BRINGER OF BAD TIDINGS      497\u003cbr\u003e  XXIX.  A SONG AND A FALLING STAR              511\u003cbr\u003e   XXX.  THE KING HATH SUMMONED HIS PARLIAMENT  534\u003cbr\u003e  XXXI.  SYLVIA ASKS QUESTIONS                  542\u003cbr\u003e XXXII.  \"MY BEAUTIFUL ONE\"                     560\u003cbr\u003eXXXIII.  THE MAN OF SHADOWS                     570\u003cbr\u003e XXXIV.  WE GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING            591\u003cbr\u003e         A POSTSCRIPT BY THE CHRONICLER         602\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMY LADY OF THE CONSTELLATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSylvia was reading in her grandfather's library when the bell tinkled.\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Kelton had few callers, and as there was never any certainty\u003cbr\u003ethat the maid-of-all-work would trouble herself to answer, Sylvia put\u003cbr\u003edown her book and went to the door. Very likely it was a student or a\u003cbr\u003emember of the faculty, and as her grandfather was not at home Sylvia was\u003cbr\u003equite sure that the interruption would be the briefest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Kelton cottage stood just off the campus, and was separated from it\u003cbr\u003eby a narrow street that curved round the college and stole, after many\u003cbr\u003etwists and turns, into town. This thoroughfare was called \"Buckeye\u003cbr\u003eLane,\" or more commonly the \"Lane.\" The college had been planted\u003cbr\u003eliterally in the wilderness by its founders, at a time when Montgomery,\u003cbr\u003efor all its dignity as the seat of the county court, was the most\u003cbr\u003ecolorless of Hoosier hamlets, save only as the prevailing mud colored\u003cbr\u003eeverything. Buckeye Lane was originally a cow-path, in the good old\u003cbr\u003etimes when every reputable villager kept a red cow and pastured it in\u003cbr\u003ethe woodlot that subsequently became Madison Athletic Field. In those\u003cbr\u003edays the Madison faculty, and their wives and daughters, seeking social\u003cbr\u003ediversion among the hospitable townfolk, picked their way down the Lane\u003cbr\u003eby lantern light. An ignorant municipal council had later, when natural\u003cbr\u003egas threatened to boom the town into cityhood, changed Buckeye Lane to\u003cbr\u003eUniversity Avenue, but the community refused to countenance any such\u003cbr\u003eimpious trifling with tradition. And besides, Madison prided herself\u003cbr\u003ethen as now on being a college that taught the humanities in all\u003cbr\u003esoberness, according to ideals brought out of New England by its\u003cbr\u003efounders. The proposed change caused an historic clash between town and\u003cbr\u003egown in which the gown triumphed. University forsooth!","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152559620336,"sku":"2940013033016","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013033016_p0.jpg?v=1763575998","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013033016","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}