{"product_id":"2940013499089","title":"THE ASSOCIATE HERMITS","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER                                                  PAGE\u003cbr\u003e     I.  The Dawn of a Wedding-journey                      1\u003cbr\u003e    II.  Enter Margery                                      7\u003cbr\u003e   III.  Sadler's                                          15\u003cbr\u003e    IV.  A Cataract of Information                         23\u003cbr\u003e     V.  Camp Rob                                          35\u003cbr\u003e    VI.  Camp Roy                                          42\u003cbr\u003e   VII.  A Stranger                                        52\u003cbr\u003e  VIII.  The Bishop's Tale                                 63\u003cbr\u003e    IX.  Matlack's Three Troubles                          74\u003cbr\u003e     X.  A Ladies' Day in Camp                             82\u003cbr\u003e    XI.  Margery Takes the Oars                            90\u003cbr\u003e   XII.  The Bishop Engages the Attention of the Guides   100\u003cbr\u003e  XIII.  The World Goes Wrong with Mr. Raybold            105\u003cbr\u003e   XIV.  The Assertion of Individuality                   113\u003cbr\u003e    XV.  A Net of Cobwebs to Cage a Lion                  123\u003cbr\u003e   XVI.  A Man who Feels Himself a Man                    135\u003cbr\u003e  XVII.  Mrs. Perkenpine Asserts Her Individuality        143\u003cbr\u003e XVIII.  The Hermits Associate                            153\u003cbr\u003e   XIX.  Margery's Breakfast                              161\u003cbr\u003e    XX.  Martin Asserts His Individuality                 173\u003cbr\u003e   XXI.  The Individuality of Peter Sadler                185\u003cbr\u003e  XXII.  A Tranquillizing Breeze and a Hot Wind           194\u003cbr\u003e XXIII.  Mrs. Perkenpine Finds out Things about Herself   205\u003cbr\u003e  XXIV.  A Dissolving Audience                            212\u003cbr\u003e   XXV.  A Moonlight Interview                            220\u003cbr\u003e  XXVI.  An Elopement                                     229\u003cbr\u003e XXVII.  Mrs. Perkenpine Delights the Bishop              239\u003cbr\u003eXXVIII.  The Hermits Continue to Favor Association        248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DAWN OF A WEDDING-JOURNEY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. and Mrs. Hector Archibald were prosperous and happy dwellers in a\u003cbr\u003esuburb of one of our large towns. Fortune had favored them in many\u003cbr\u003eways--in health and in a good average happiness. They had reached early\u003cbr\u003emiddle age, and their daughter Kate, their only child, had grown up to be\u003cbr\u003ea beautiful and good young woman, and was on the point of marrying a young\u003cbr\u003elawyer--Rodney Bringhurst by name--in every way worthy of her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHector Archibald was a little man, with small bright eyes, and hair\u003cbr\u003eslightly touched with gray and very much inclined to curl. His disposition\u003cbr\u003ewas lively. He had a strong liking for cheerful occurrences, and was\u003cbr\u003ealways willing to do his part in the bringing about of such events.\u003cbr\u003eNovelty had a charm for him. He was not bound by precedence and tradition,\u003cbr\u003eand if he had found himself at a dinner which began with coffee and ended\u003cbr\u003ewith oysters on the half-shell, he would have given the unusual meal a\u003cbr\u003emost animated consideration, although he might have utterly withheld any\u003cbr\u003esubsequent approbation. As a general thing, he revolved in an orbit where\u003cbr\u003eone might always be able to find him, were the proper calculations made.\u003cbr\u003eBut if any one drew a tangent for him, and its direction seemed suitable\u003cbr\u003eand interesting, he was perfectly willing to fly off on it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe disposition of Mrs. Hector Archibald was different. She was born to be\u003cbr\u003eguided by customs, fashions, and forms. She believed it was the duty of a\u003cbr\u003emarried woman to make her home happy, and she did it. But she also\u003cbr\u003ebelieved that in the best domestic circles there were rules and usages for\u003cbr\u003edomestic happiness which would apply to every domestic condition and\u003cbr\u003econtingency. It frequently troubled her, however, to find that certain\u003cbr\u003ecustoms, forms, or usages of domestic society had changed, and being of a\u003cbr\u003econservative turn of mind, it was difficult for her to adapt herself to\u003cbr\u003ethese changes. But, thoroughly loyal to the idea that what was done by\u003cbr\u003epeople she loved and people she respected ought also to be done by her,\u003cbr\u003eshe earnestly strove to fit herself to new conditions, especially when she\u003cbr\u003esaw that by not doing so she would be out of touch with her family and her\u003cbr\u003efriends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow of course the wedding of their daughter was the only thing in the\u003cbr\u003eworld that seemed of real importance to Mr. and Mrs. Archibald, and for\u003cbr\u003ethis all preparations and plans had been agreed upon and made with great\u003cbr\u003egood-will and harmony, excepting one thing, and that was the wedding-trip.\u003cbr\u003eStrange to say, the young people did not wish to take a wedding-trip. They\u003cbr\u003ebelieved that this old-fashioned custom was unnecessary, troublesome,\u003cbr\u003ecommonplace, and stupid.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073696219376,"sku":"2940013499089","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013499089_p0.jpg?v=1763582177","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013499089","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}