The clever woman of the family--

General Books publication date: 2009
Original publication date: 1875
Original Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
Subjects: Fiction / General

Fiction / Classics

Fiction / Literary

Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Social Science / Women's Studies

Social Science / Gender Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.
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Excerpt: CHAPTER XIII. f THE FOX AND THE CROW. " She just gave one squall, "When the cheese she let fall, And the fox ran away with his prize." Jane Taylob. "MY dear," said Mrs. Curtis, one Monday morning, "I offered Colonel Keith a seat in the carriage to go to the annual book-club meeting with us. Mr. Spicer is going to propose him as a member of the club, you know, and I thought the close carriage would be better for him. I suppose you will be ready by eleven; we ought to set out by that time, not to hurry the horses." " I am not going," returned Eachel, an announcement that electrified her auditors, for the family quota of books being quite insufficient for her insatiable appetite, she was a subscriber on her own account, and besides, this was the grand annual gathering for disposing of old books, when she was relied on for purchasing all the nuts that nobody else would crack. The whole affair was one of the few social gatherings that she really tolerated and enjoyed, and her mother gazed at her in amazement. " I wrote to Mrs. Spicer a month ago to take my name off, I have no superfluous money to spend on my selfish amusement.'' " But Eachel," said Grace, " did you not particularly want -- oh ! that fat red book which came to us uncut 1" " I did, but I must do without it." " Poor Mr. Spicer, he reckoned on you to take it; indeed, he thought you had promised h...