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AMAZING GRACE
AMAZING GRACE
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I STRAINED RELATIONS 1
II A GLIMPSE OF PROMISED LAND 26
III NIP AND TUCK 40
IV THE QUALITY OF MERCY 59
V ET TU, BRUTE! 82
VI FLAG DAY 99
VII STRAWS POINT 115
VIII LONGEST WAY HOME 128
IX MAITLAND TAIT 141
X IN THE FIRELIGHT 157
XI TWO MEN AND A MAID 168
XII AN ASSIGNMENT 186
XIII JILTED! 211
XIV THE SKIES FALL 230
XV THE JOURNEY 244
XVI LONDON 278
XVII HOUSE OF A HUNDRED DREAMS 312
AMAZING GRACE
AMAZING GRACE
CHAPTER I
STRAINED RELATIONS
Some people, you will admit, can absorb experience in gentle little
homeopathic doses, while others require it to be shot into them by
hypodermic injections.
Certainly my Dresden-china mother up to the time of my birth had been
forced to take this bitter medicine in every form, yet she had never
been known to profit by it. She would not, it is true, fly in the very
face of Providence, but she _would_ nag at its coat tails.
"You might as well name this child 'Praise-the-Lord,' and be done with
it!" complained the rich Christie connection (which mother had always
regarded as outlaws as well as in-laws), shaking its finger across the
christening font into mother's boarding-school face on the day of my
baptism. "Of course all the world knows you're _glad_ she's
posthumous, but--"
CHAPTER PAGE
I STRAINED RELATIONS 1
II A GLIMPSE OF PROMISED LAND 26
III NIP AND TUCK 40
IV THE QUALITY OF MERCY 59
V ET TU, BRUTE! 82
VI FLAG DAY 99
VII STRAWS POINT 115
VIII LONGEST WAY HOME 128
IX MAITLAND TAIT 141
X IN THE FIRELIGHT 157
XI TWO MEN AND A MAID 168
XII AN ASSIGNMENT 186
XIII JILTED! 211
XIV THE SKIES FALL 230
XV THE JOURNEY 244
XVI LONDON 278
XVII HOUSE OF A HUNDRED DREAMS 312
AMAZING GRACE
AMAZING GRACE
CHAPTER I
STRAINED RELATIONS
Some people, you will admit, can absorb experience in gentle little
homeopathic doses, while others require it to be shot into them by
hypodermic injections.
Certainly my Dresden-china mother up to the time of my birth had been
forced to take this bitter medicine in every form, yet she had never
been known to profit by it. She would not, it is true, fly in the very
face of Providence, but she _would_ nag at its coat tails.
"You might as well name this child 'Praise-the-Lord,' and be done with
it!" complained the rich Christie connection (which mother had always
regarded as outlaws as well as in-laws), shaking its finger across the
christening font into mother's boarding-school face on the day of my
baptism. "Of course all the world knows you're _glad_ she's
posthumous, but--"