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A country community is stirred by the return of a long-absent man and the arrival of his foreign-raised daughter, prompting household preparations, social curiosity, and romantic entanglements. The narrative follows young people whose courtships, jealousies, and misunderstandings unfold through visits, interviews, and exchanged letters; hidden connections and past secrets emerge as illness, an explosion, and an epidemic intensify tensions. Personal testimonies and old correspondence gradually clarify relationships, reconcile estranged sisters, and resolve rivalries, leading to the settlement of domestic affairs and the reestablishment of family and social order.

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Title: Queenie Hetherton

Author: Mary Jane Holmes

Release date: April 6, 2023 [eBook #70474]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: G. W. Dillingham Company, 1880

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“WE WILL NEVER QUARREL THEN, WILL WE, DARLING?” HE SAID.Queenie Hetherton, Page 217.

Queenie Hetherton

BY
MARY J. HOLMES
As published in the New York Weekly, Vol. 35, No. 31
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Copyright, 1880, by
STREET & SMITH
Copyright, 1883, by
DANIEL HOLMES
(All rights reserved)
Copyright, 1908, by
DANIEL HOLMES
Queenie Hetherton.
TO
MRS. JULIE P. SMITH,
OF HARTFORD, CONN.,
I DEDICATE THIS STORY OF QUEENIE,
IN MEMORY OF
THE DEAR LITTLE GIRL WHO SLEEPS AMONG
THE NEW ENGLAND HILLS.
Brockport, June, 1883.