Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
"I SHALL NOT BE LIKELY TO CHOOSE AGAIN, KATHLEEN."
A WILFUL WARD
BY RUTH LAMB
Author of
"Only a Girl Wife," "Her Own Choice,"
"In the Twilight Side by Side,"
"Not Quite a Lady," etc.
LONDON
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
4 Bouverie Street and 65 St. Paul's Churchyard
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
X. CONFIDENCES AND FOREBODINGS
XXII. FRUITS MEET FOR REPENTANCE
A WILFUL WARD
CHAPTER I
GOING TO THE MEET
"MY dear Kathleen, do try and be reasonable. To hear your grumbling,any one might think the rain had been sent on purpose to disappointyou of your ride. Remember, child. This is the fourth of November, notmidsummer, and the rain is seasonable."
"It may be seasonable, but it is just as disagreeable and disappointingas if it were not. I do not need to be reminded that this is the fourthof November, for everybody has been dinning the date into my ears fora fortnight past. I have not exchanged words with a single creaturewithout being reminded that this day's meet at Hollingsby will be thefinest sight of the kind that Woldshire has witnessed since the oldearl died."
"The first meet of the season is always a fine spectacle, my dear."
"Yes, aunt, but this will be a record meet. The young earl has justcome of age, and everybody is bent on making it a gathering to beremembered for generations to come. It