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diff --git a/23367.txt b/23367.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ffc162a --- /dev/null +++ b/23367.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1001 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Julia The Apostate, by Josephine Daskam + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Julia The Apostate + +Author: Josephine Daskam + +Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23367] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JULIA THE APOSTATE *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + +JULIA THE APOSTATE + +By Josephine Daskam + +Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's Sons + + +"You don't think it's too young for me, girls?" + +"Young for you--_par exemple!_ I should say not," her niece replied, +perking the quivering aigrette still more obliquely upon her aunt's +head. Carolyn used _par exemple_ as a good cook uses onion--a hint of it +in everything. There were those who said that she interpolated it in the +Litany; but Carolyn, who was born Caroline and a Baptist, was too much +impressed by the liturgy of what she called The Church to insert even an +uncanonized comma. + +"Now don't touch it, Aunt Julia, for it's deliciously chic, and if you +had your way you'd flatten it down right straight in the middle--you +know you would." + +Miss Trueman pursed her lips quizzically. + +"I've always thought, Carrie--_lyn_," she added hastily, as her niece +scowled, "that they put things askew to make 'em different--for a +change, as you might say. Now, if they're _never_ in the middle, it's +about as tiresome, isn't it?" + +Elise, whose napkin-ring bore malignant witness to her loving aunt, +Eliza Judd, laughed irrepressibly: she had more sense of humor than her +sister. It was she who, though she had assisted in polishing the old +copper kettle subsequently utilized as a holder for the tongs and +shovel, had refused to consider the yet older wash-boiler in the light +of a possible coal-scuttle, greatly to the relief of her aunt, who +blushed persistently at any mention of the hearth. + +She patted the older woman encouragingly. + +"That's right, Aunt Ju-ju, argue it out!" she advised. + +Miss Trueman winced. She had never accustomed herself to those senseless +monosyllables that parodied her name; nor could she understand the frame +of mind that found them preferable to the comfortable "Aunt Jule" of the +old days. + +"Ju-ju!" Strips of unwholesome flesh-colored paste, sugar-sprinkled, +dear to her childish heart but loathed by a maturer palate, rose to her +mind. There had been another haunting recollection: for months she +had been unable to define it perfectly, though it had always brought a +thrill of disgust with its vague appeal. One day she caught it and told +them. + +"It was that dreadful creature Mr. Barnum exhibited," she declared, +"that we didn't allow the children to go to see--Jo-jo, the Dog-faced +Boy! You remember?" + +Their cold horror, briefly expressed, had shown her that she had +trespassed too far on their indulgence, and she spoke of it no more, but +the memory rankled. + +"It's so strange you don't see how cunning it is," Carolyn complained; +"everybody does it now. The whole Chatworth family have those names, +Aunt Ju, and it is the dearest thing to hear the old doctor call Captain +Arthur 'Ga-ga.' You know that dignified sister with the lovely silvery +hair? Well, they all call her 'Looty.' And nobody thinks of Hunter +Chatworth's real name--he's always 'Toto.'" + +"And he has three children!" + +Miss Trueman sighed; the constitution of the modern family amazed her +endlessly. Ga-ga, indeed! + +"Do the children call him Toto, too?" she demanded, with an attempt at +sarcasm, a conversational form to which she was by nature a stranger. + +"Oh, I don't know about that," Carolyn answered carelessly. "I suppose +not. Though plenty of children do, you know. Mrs. Ranger's little girl +always calls her mother Lou." + +"Mrs. Ranger--you mean the woman that smokes?" + +Miss Trueman's tone brought vividly to the mind a person dangling from +disgusted finger-tips a mouse or beetle. + +"For heaven's sake, Aunt Jule"--in moments of intense exasperation they +reverted unconsciously to the old form--"don't speak of her as if she +smoked for a living!" + +"I should rather not speak of her at all," said Miss Trueman severely. + +They raised their eyebrows helplessly: Carolyn's irritation was so +unfeigned that she omitted a justly famous shrug. + +For two years they had devoted an appreciable part of their busy hours +to modifying Aunt Julia's antique prejudices, developing in her the +latent aesthetic sense that their Wednesday art class taught them +existed in every one, cajoling her into a tolerance of certain phases +of modern literature considered seriously and weekly by the Monday +Afternoon Club, and incidentally utilizing her as a chaperon and +housekeeper in their modest up-town apartment. + +The first six months of her sojourn had been almost entirely occupied +with accustoming herself to the absence of an attic and a cellar; long +days of depression they learned, finally, to trace to this incredible +source. Later she dealt with the problem of subsisting from eight till +one on two rolls and a cup of coffee; successfully, in the ultimate +issue, as surreptitious bits of fried ham and buckwheat cakes, with +suspicious odors, winked at discreetly by her nieces, witnessed. It +would have been unkind, as Elise suggested, to criticise Aunt Ju-ju's +performances at the ungodly hour of seven in the morning, when their own +correctly Continental repast, flanked by a chrysanthemum in a tall +vase, not only tallied so accurately with their digestive and aesthetic +necessities, but appeared, moreover, with such gratifying regularity one +hour later. + +Both Carolyn and her sister had inherited from their mother, Miss +True-man's older sister, a real gift for teaching, and this, rather than +their respective abilities in art and music, enabled them to impart +very successfully the elements of these necessary branches to the young +ladies of a fashionable boarding-school just outside the city. + +It was politely regretted by their friends that they were unable to +give themselves unreservedly to the exercise of their art without the +cramping necessity for teaching; but it is probable that both the girls +estimated their not too extraordinary talents very sensibly, though far +from displeased by a more flattering judgment. + +Miss Trueman, who possessed the characteristic veneration of the bred +and born New Englander for his native or imported school-ma'am, resented +persistently their somewhat patronizing attitude toward the profession +second only to the ministry in her stanch respect. A little of the +simple grandeur of those childhood days when "the teacher boarded with +them" clung with the ineradicable force of habit to her mind, and she +could not understand their restive attitude at "the fine positions as +teachers Hattie's girls have got." + +"I'm sure you make more money than that Miss Seymour that gets her own +meals in her room--she said so herself." + +"Oh, well, there are other things to be considered, Aunt Ju; and, +anyway, she's a real bohemian, Polly Seymour. There's a fascination in +it." + +"There's no fascination in being hungry that I can see, and she admitted +that, L--Elise," Miss Trueman insisted severely. "I don't understand how +she could have done it--I would have died first. And she seemed to think +it was a great joke to have her friends give her a dinner--I think it +was terrible." + +"Why, Aunt Jule, how ridiculous! We were delighted to do it--it was +perfectly dear of her to let us, too. And think of the people we met +there--Rawlins and Mr. Ware! You don't mind being poor if such men will +come just out of interest in you, I tell you. Do you remember, Elise, +how Mr. Rawlins called her 'little girl'? Mr. Ware lets her use his +models whenever she likes, too," Carolyn added respectfully. + +"Oh, she's bound to arrive!" Elise agreed. + +Aunt Ju-ju sniffed uncontrolledly. + +"I should hope she'd arrive at the point where she could buy her own +dinners," she remarked. "To be beholden for your bread"... + +Here were two points of view as little likely to coincide as the +parallel lines of science, and at some such stage as this the +discussions were wont to cease. + +To-day the apartment was swept and garnished for a social function +long planned by the nieces. Carnations leaned from tall glass vases, +intricate little cakes jostled carefully piled sandwiches, and a huge +brass samovar, borrowed for the occasion, gave dignity to the small +parlor. Miss Trueman had learned by now the unwritten law that prevented +the various objects in the once proudly segregated "drawing-room set" +from association with each other, and made no attempt to correct their +intentional isolation. The samovar she refused utterly to meddle with, +assuring them that she would as soon think of running a locomotive. + +As the guests began to arrive Miss Trueman found herself regarding them +even more critically than usual; an argumentative spirit rose in her, +and her calm contradiction of Mrs. Ranger, who discussed with great +subtlety the notable advantages--even from the artistic point of +view--of the approaching spring when experienced in the city, in +comparison with that be-rhymed season's vaunted country beauties, +startled more than one person. + +"Just because they're more delicate, just because you must look harder +to discover them, just because you must get as much from a pot of +hyacinths on the Avenue as from a whole field of primroses in the +backwoods, you know," she concluded, and the little circle nodded sagely +and congratulated themselves on an unpublished paragraph. + +"I don't agree with you, Mrs. Ranger," said Aunt Ju-ju flatly, to the +absolute amazement of her nieces and the tolerant amusement of the +assembly. "I guess you haven't lived in the country much, or you +wouldn't talk so. And primroses don't grow in fields here, anyway. +If you could see my hyacinths and crocuses in round beds at home, you +wouldn't mention those poor little stalks in the pots." + +Mrs. Ranger laughed, and directed her searching, level glance at +the older woman, who combined in her comely, undisguised middle age +something at once more matronly and more childish than the analytic +authoress could ever find in her own mirror. + +"Aha!" she cried, "then you are no friend of dear old Horace, after all, +Miss Trueman! He and I, you see--" + +The relation of these two urbanites was revealed no further, for a +bustle in the little hall drew attention to a newcomer unknown not +only to the guests but evidently to the hostesses, who rose, smiling +uncertainly, as a portly, broad-shouldered man with iron-gray hair made +his way through the group about the samovar. + +"I'll have to introduce myself, I see," he began, not precisely +with what an exigent society calls ease of manner, but with a certain +practical self-possession quite as effective. + +"I didn't expect the girls to remember me, but I thought perhaps you +might, Julia." + +Miss Trueman peered out from the shaded five-o'clock gloom so dear to +Carolyn's soul. + +"I don't seem--it's not--why, Cousin Lorando Bean, it's not you?" + +"That's it," he said heartily, "that's just exactly it. And he's mighty +glad to see some of his relations again, I can tell you. And these are +Carrie and Lizzie, I suppose. Well, well, fifteen years is a long time, +even to an old fellow like me, and you girls were just beginning to be +young ladies when I left Connecticut. How are you all?" + +If this simple greeting came like a breath of her native air to Miss +True-man, it cannot be said to have had a similar effect on her nieces. +Courtesy prevented a full expression of their feelings, but they +affected no undue delight at the presence of their new-found +relative--whom they had very sincerely forgotten, along with many other +details of a somewhat inartistic youth--and turned to their other guests +with a frank relief when they had established him, with a cup of tea, a +sandwich, and Aunt Julia, in the near-by dining-room. + +"A third or fourth cousin, I believe, who has lived a long time in the +West," they explained. The company, some of whom doubtless possessed +third or fourth cousins from the West, nodded comprehensively, and the +interrupted function flowed smoothly on again. + +Cousin Lorando Bean balanced his cup on his broad palm and gazed about +appreciatively at the casts and water-colors on the dull green walls. + +"Very snug little quarters, these," he volunteered, "but, do you know, +Cousin Jule, I suppose it's all right for ladies, but I don't seem to +breathe extra well in these little rooms, somehow! I've been in two or +three of them like this, more or less, since I came to New York--people +I used to know that I've been hunting up--and, by George, I began to +feel as if I was getting red in the face, if you see what I mean." + +"Yes, indeed, Cousin Lorando, I do," returned Miss Trueman eagerly, "I +see exactly. And not having any cellar--you've no idea! Nor any +attic, either. And often and often we have the gas lighted all through +breakfast. Of course there are a great many conveniences," she added +loyally, "and there's no doubt it saves steps. But I almost think I'd +rather take 'em." + +He nodded. + +"What's become of the old place, Cousin Jule? I judge you've been out of +it some time?" + +"Two years, Cousin Lorando. The girls had been boarding up to then, and +when Aunt Martha died they got up this plan for me to come down and live +with them, for they couldn't afford it quite, alone, and then I could +chaperon them." + +Aunt Julia delivered herself of this phrase with a certain complacency. +Mr. Bean looked up sharply. + +"That means that nobody gets a show to abduct 'em while you're around, I +take it?" he inquired. + +"We-ell, not exactly," she demurred. + +"But that's the idea? I thought so. Yes. How old is Lizzie now? Thirty?" + +"Oh, no, Cousin Lorando; L---- Elise isn't twenty-nine yet. Carolyn is +about thirty." + +"I don't seem to recall any one chaperoning you and Hattie when you were +thirty," he suggested thoughtfully. + +She laughed involuntarily. + +"Oh, Hattie was married, Cousin Lorando, and the children were ten years +old! And, anyway, it was different then." + +"The girls were just as pretty, I guess," he insisted. "And there were +plenty of buggies, if anybody had designs." + +There was a pause, and the buzz of voices from the other room rose +loudly. + +"They've neither of them got their mother's looks," he observed; and +then, with apparent irrelevance: "When will they be considered safe to +go about alone?" + +"I don't know exactly what you mean," she began a little coldly, but his +laugh reassured her. + +"Oh, yes, you do," he contradicted, "and don't you be getting cross at +your Cousin Lorando Bean! You know I always loved to tease you; it made +your eyes snap--and it does now." + +"How can you?" She looked reproachfully at him. + +"And I tell you this, Cousin Jule: neither of those girls will ever get +up a color like that!" + +She shook her head, but she was not displeased. He took out a fat +chocolate-colored cigar and fingered it wistfully. + +"I suppose I mustn't smoke?" he queried. + +Her quick answer surprised herself. + +"I should hope you could, if that woman can!" + +"Which one?" + +"That Mrs. Ranger, the one near the samovar--that big brass thing. +Liz--Elise didn't introduce her to you. They don't introduce people the +way they do at home, Cousin Lorando--I hope you didn't mind. They think +it's awkward." + +"Oh, Lord, no, I don't mind. I can spare her, anyway. She's checked up +too high for me. But she can look you through pretty thoroughly, can't +she?" + +"She writes books," Miss Trueman returned, the finality of her tone +indicating that she had explained any possible idiosyncrasy of the lady +in question. + +"Oh, I see. And the little red-haired one, does she write books, too?" + +"No; she's an artist. She smokes too, though. Not cigars, like yours, +but cigarettes. She's supposed to be a very good painter, but she +doesn't make what Carrie--lyn makes. The girls have very good positions +in Miss Abrams' school." + +"Um, what do they get, now?" + +Miss Trueman mentioned the modest sum with pride. + +"And then with my money and what we get from the rent of the place--the +girls and I each have a third, you know--we do very nicely." + +"So you rented the place?" + +"Yes, Cousin Lorando, though I hated to. But I wouldn't sell it, though +they wanted me to. I just couldn't." + +"I know." + +He lighted his cigar and puffed at it in meditative silence for a +moment, while the babble from the parlor floated in with the odor of the +Ceylon tea and cigarettes. + +"That's what I came about, Cousin Jule--the old place. You may think +it's queer, for I never lived there but two years once, when father and +your Uncle Joe farmed it on shares; but those two years just made it +home to me. Of course Uncle Joe wasn't any real relation of mine, and +you-all weren't my real cousins, but it was the only family I ever had, +so to say, and I loved every one of you. Then we moved back into town; +but you know I came in every week or so, and Aunt Martha used to have my +room in the attic ready for me, just the same." + +"Yes, I know; Aunt Martha never forgot you, Cousin Lorando." + +"Well, it's fifteen years since I saw the old place, and a lot's +happened since then, I tell you. First place, I'm a rich man, Cousin +Jule. + +"Oh, I don't mean one of these multi-millionaires you have about here, +for I haven't even seven figures opposite my name; but short of that +I did very well for myself out West there, and I earned it all fair, +too--though I was pretty lucky, and that counts. + +"Anyhow, never mind about that. Only I've got enough to have anything I +want, and to give my friends something, too. So as soon as I got back. +East I went straight down to the farm. But it was all shut up and a kind +of green hedge where the fence used to be, and I judged it was sold, and +I felt pretty sore about it, so I came right away." + +"They only come there in June," Miss Trueman explained, "and they go +back before Thanksgiving." + +"Yes. Well, I didn't know that." + +He waited again for a few seconds, and Miss Trueman sat in respectful +silence till he should continue. + +"You see, I'd been East once before, eight years ago, but I didn't see +the farm then," he said finally. + +"I got married while I was West." + +His audience of one started slightly. + +"She's dead now," he added abruptly. + +"Oh, Cousin Lorando--" + +"You needn't bother about the sympathy, my dear, for there's none +needed. I hadn't been with her for a good while. I saw her in a +concert-hall out there, and she had curly hair and a kind of taking way +with her, and so I married her. I'd just made a big hit, and she wanted +to come to New York, and we came. We went to a big hotel, and it was +dress-suits for me and diamonds for her, and we drove in a carriage in +the park in the afternoon. She liked it, but I soon got enough. I don't +care much for that sort of thing. She wanted to go to the theatre and +see the girls that she'd been one of, you see, from the other side of +the curtain. And she saw a man there she used to know, and--well, it +turned out she liked him better, that's all." + +"Oh, Cousin Lorando, how terrible--for her!" + +"Um, yes. She didn't think it was specially terrible, I guess, though. +She just packed up and went." + +"Went?" + +"Yes--with him, you see. Diamonds and all. I got a divorce, of course. +And she wasn't such a bad lot, after all, for he hadn't any money to +speak of, compared to me. It was the man she wanted. Well, she got him." + +"How awful!" Miss Trueman murmured. + +"Oh, yes, I felt pretty sick for a while. But we hadn't been any too +happy before she saw him, you see. It was a big mistake. She wasn't +exactly the kind of woman you'd be apt to know, you see. So perhaps I +got off easier than I deserved. But I never would have married while she +was alive. Not but what I had a right to, you understand, but I guess +I'm old-fashioned more ways than one. I read about her death a year or +so ago. I don't believe she had any too good a time herself. She had +an awful temper. But she certainly did have pretty hair," he concluded +thoughtfully. + +Miss Trueman gasped. + +"So I didn't want to see New York again; I just hated the place. And +this time I only came because I found out you and the girls were here, +and you were about all there was left. People die so. And I wanted to +find out about the old place. I wanted to buy it, if I could, when I +thought it was sold." + +"But, Cousin Lorando, I couldn't sell it!" + +"Oh, no, I s'pose not. Still, I might buy out the girls' thirds and rent +yours, couldn't I? I'd pay you as much and more than anybody else would, +I guess. And you could keep your interest. And keep half of the house, +for that matter, to use when you wanted--it's big enough." + +"Why, yes, I don't see why I couldn't do that," she said thoughtfully. +"That would be nice." + +"You see, I'm willing to make any arrangement, Cousin Jule. It's about +all there is that I'm fond of now, that old place. I haven't any folks +of my own, and not a chick nor child, and I love every stick and stone +of that farm. I love the country, and I love Connecticut country best +of all, I don't care if it is rocky. You can't make farming pay in New +England any more. But I don't need to make it pay; I'm willing to pay +for the pleasure of it. And I want to do something for the town, too. I +want 'em to be glad I came to settle there. Who's got the keys?" + +"I have, right here," she answered. "The furniture is all ours, you see; +they haven't brought much, only they've changed things all around. I +haven't renewed the lease yet for this year." + +"Well, now, look here, Jule," Mr. Bean cried eagerly, dropping the end +of his cigar into a bonbon-dish on the little side-table, "why don't you +run right up there with me to-night, and we'll look it all over and +sort of plan it out? We can go up on the six-thirty, and get there by +half-past ten, and stop at the hotel, and be there all ready to look it +over to-morrow. Now, how's that?" + +"Why, but, Cousin Lorando--I--there isn't time--I hadn't planned--" + +"Lord, neither had I, but what's the difference? If you want a thing +done, go and do it yourself. Wouldn't you like to go? It's lovely +up there; the spring's coming on fast, you know. I got lots of +pussy-willow, and some little fellows told me there were May-flowers +somewhere. You'll see more grass in a minute there than you can hunt up +here in a week. Come on, Cousin Jule!" + +"I believe I will!" said Miss True-man, with conviction. + +"Just pack up a bag for your aunt, Carrie, while I get a cab," said Mr. +Bean from the doorway. "We're going up to the old place--I'm thinking of +buying it. I expect we'll be back tomorrow." + +"Your cousin appears to be a person of decision," Mrs. Ranger suggested +to the still dazed Elise, as the cab rolled away. + +"I don't understand Aunt Ju-ju at all," Carolyn interpolated crossly. +She had not been in the habit of packing her aunt's bag. "She usually +makes such a fuss about starting to go anywhere--days ahead, in fact. +And now at fifteen minutes' notice! And her best gown!" + +"It makes a difference, having a man to run it," said the novelist +sagely. + +When two days had passed and their aunt had not yet appeared, her nieces +were not unnecessarily alarmed, for her attachment to her old home was +great, and it required no unusual degree of imagination to picture +her delighted lingering over the old things, her purposely prolonged +transaction of business details. But four days of unexplained absence +had its effect upon their own little menage; and when a week's visit had +been accomplished and their beseeching letters had elicited only vague +postal cards explaining nothing, but suggesting their presence at the +farm, they became convinced of the necessity for action on their part, +and went, more or less in the presumable spirit of the mountain in +search of the fractious Prophet. + +Tired and cross after four hours' travel on an incredibly hot 1st of +April, they walked sternly up the board walk that led to the old-style +porch, to be greeted by their cousin, who sat in snowy shirtsleeves, +tilted back in his chair against the house, smoking his fat, dark cigar. + +"Welcome home, girls--glad to see you!" he called cheerily. "Here they +are, Jule! Now don't be afraid, but come right out and see them!" + +"Why, bless your heart, Lorando, I'm not afraid," a familiar voice +answered; and Aunt Julia appeared before them, cool in blue checked +gingham, with an enveloping white apron and familiarly floury hands. + +"I'm just beating up some biscuit for tea," she explained, "but I guess +you can shake hands with me, girls "; and as she extended both arms +hospitably they saw upon her floured left hand an unmistakable shining +gold band. + +"Aunt Jule!" they gasped together. "Are you--is it--" + +"That's it exactly," said Cousin Lorando Bean. "She is. And I hope +you'll congratulate her, girls, though nobody knows better than I what a +good housekeeper you've lost! I'll tell you the facts of the matter, and +you can judge for yourself. If ever two people were made for each other, +those two are your Aunt Jule and me. We love the country, and we love +this farm, and what's very important, we love the same way of living." + +"That's quite true, Carrie--lyn," Aunt Julia interposed, the tears in +her eyes, but a new decision in her voice. + +"I like my tea at night, and so does your Cousin Lorando. And I should +have wanted gravy on my potato if I lived to be a hundred. And, Carrie, +I _could not live_ without a cellar! + +"And if you knew how nervous I got when that old dumb-waiter in the +kitchen used to whistle for the things to be put on it! I used to hate +it so--sometimes I'd wake up in the night and think I heard it! Once I +lost my temper at it, and I answered it back: 'I haven't anything to go +down, and I wouldn't give it to you if I had!'" + +"Why, Aunt Jule!" they cried. + +"And I tell you, Carrie, when you have cleaned house regularly, spring +and fall, for forty years, ever since you were born, it makes an awful +break to give it up! And I do love a good crayon portrait." + +They looked at each other in silence. + +"And when you have a set of furniture, it makes me nervous not to have +it set together," Aunt Julia went on determinedly. + +"And I will _not_ have a woman smoking in my house! + +"And oh, Carrie, if you knew how I suffered with that dirty darky girl!" + +"But--but, Aunt Jule, why didn't you--" + +"You see, Carrie and Lizzie, it was this way," said Mr. Bean soothingly. + +"Your aunt and I got talking old times, and we found that we both felt +about the same. And after we'd looked the old house over together a day +or two, she couldn't seem to leave it, somehow, and she couldn't live in +it alone, and I always wanted it. + +"So I said, 'If you'll just step over to the parson's, across the +street, with me, we'll fix this all right in about ten minutes. You've +known me ever since I was a boy, and I've known you, and it's nobody's +business but ours if we want to finish up together.' I may have said a +few other things, too, but that's neither here nor there. And when she +said what would the girls do, I told her that what with the full price +of their interest in the farm, and her third that she could add to +it--for a sort of wedding-present, you see--I didn't see but what you +could well afford to take a trip to Europe and stay about as long as you +liked--she said you wanted to do that more than anything; though why I +don't know--Connecticut ought to be good enough for anybody!" + +They sank upon the porch steps, sincerely overcome. + +"I knew you'd like it when you came to know it all," said Aunt Julia +placidly. "He's the kindest man--" + +And to their excited eyes the very tidies on the geometrically arranged +chairs, the bright rag rugs on the floor, the biscuits and preserves +consecrated to their New England tea, yes, even the insistent +shirt-sleeves of Cousin Lorando Bean, were lighted by a halo of content. + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Julia The Apostate, by Josephine Daskam + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JULIA THE APOSTATE *** + +***** This file should be named 23367.txt or 23367.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/3/6/23367/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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