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Miss Theodora
A West End Story BY Helen Leah Reed
BOSTON
RICHARD G. BADGER & CO.
1898
Copyright, 1898, by
Richard G. Badger & Co.
All Rights Reserved
The frontispiece and chapter headings are from drawings by FlorencePearl England, the latter being after photographs.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
I.
The tourist, with his day or two at a down town hotel, calls Boston acity of narrow streets and ancient graveyards; the dweller in one of thenewer avenues is enthusiastic about the modern architecture and regularstreets of the Back Bay region. Yet neither of these knows the realBoston, the old West End, with its quaint tree-lined streets slopingfrom the top of Beacon Hill toward the river.
Near the close of any bright afternoon, walk from the State House downthe hill,[Pg 2] pause half-way, and, glancing back, note the perfect Gothicarch formed by the trees that line both sides of Mount Vernon Street.Admire those old houses which have taken on the rich, deep tones thatage so kindly imparts to brick. Then look across the river to the sunjust setting behind the Brookline hills,—and admit that even in acrowded city we may catch glimpses of the picturesque.
Half-way down one of the quiet, hilly West End streets is the house ofMiss Theodora—no, I will not tell you