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Sample ## Take a look inside E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the publica.now Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) “Surely you must have read it long ago” Page 360 JEWEL WEED BY ALICE AMES WINTER Author of “The Prize to the Hardy” WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRISON FISHER GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers :: :: New York Copyright 1906 The Bobbs-Merrill Company October TO MY FATHER AND MOTHER CHARLES G. AND FANNY B. AMES CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A Light from the Far East 1 II Mother and Son 28 III An Occidental Luminary 41 IV At Madeline’s 54 V Salad Days 77 VI Jewel Weed 99 VII Lena’s Progress 116 VIII The Falls 132 IX An Invitation 152 X Bitter-Sweet 173 XI Politics and Play 194 XII An Engagement 210 XIII An Awakening 222 XIV The Return of Ram Juna 242 XV The Honeymoon 269 XVI Lena’s Friends 298 XVII Grape-Shot 324 XVIII Easter 344 XIX Oriental Rubies 365 XX A Light From the East Goes Out 391 XXI A Light in the West Goes Down 401 XXII Another Beginning 426 JEWEL WEED CHAPTER I A LIGHT FROM THE FAR EAST In the mists of the infinite, events poise invisible, awaiting their opportunity to incarnate themselves. They fasten, each after his kind, on these human lives of ours, as germs find the culture soil they love; so it follows that to the commonplace comes a life of dull routine, foolish happenings seek out the sentimentalist, sordid events seek the sordid and on the mystic dawns the mysterious. Calamities wait there, too, until Fate points out a weak spot in character on which they may pounce relentless with the temptation that pierces it. As there are certain things that would scarcely dare to happen to certain people, so other greater events would hardly condescend to those whom they… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fjewel-weed) The sample continues in the full work. [ #classic ](/search?query=classic) [ #public-domain ](/search?query=public-domain) [ #library ](/search?query=library) ## Reviews No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. [Sign in to leave a review](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fvito%2Fworks%2Fjewel-weed) No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. 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