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Susan Proudleigh

Chapter 30: TRANSCRIBER NOTES
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About This Book

A young woman from a modest Kingston household contends with neighborhood envy, class friction, and economic precarity while aspiring to a better life abroad. A local quarrel becomes a courtroom episode that exposes legal ineffectiveness and deepens her humiliation; domestic pride in recently acquired comforts sits alongside family hardship and romantic disappointment. The narrative follows community pressures and persistent talk of opportunity in Central America, and describes escalating incidents—public meetings, a subscription party, a fire, and an anonymous letter—that force difficult choices and ultimately determine the family’s fortunes.

GENERAL LITERATURE

A List of Books in General Literature may be obtained from any bookseller, or post free on application to the Publishers.

The List contains books by:—

F. W. BAIN

GRAHAM BALFOUR

S. BARING-GOULD

HILAIRE BELLOC

ARNOLD BENNETT

LORD CHARLES BERESFORD

H. MASSAE BUIST

EDWARD CARPENTER

G. K. CHESTERTON

EDWARD HUTTON

SIR HARRY JOHNSTON

RUDYARD KIPLING

EDWARD KNOBLAUCH

SIR E. RAY LANKESTER

SIR OLIVER LODGE

E. V. LUCAS

MAURICE MAETERLINCK

SIR HIRAM MAXIM

LADY DOROTHY NEVILL

R. L. STEVENSON

OSCAR WILDE

H. NOEL WILLIAMS

METHUEN & CO. LTD., 36 ESSEX STREET, LONDON, W.C.


METHUEN’S

COLONIAL LIBRARY

A SERIES OF COPYRIGHT BOOKS BY EMINENT AND POPULAR AUTHORS PUBLISHED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THEIR APPEARANCE IN ENGLAND. THEY ARE OF VERY HANDSOME APPEARANCE, BOUND TASTEFULLY IN PAPER OR IN CLOTH. THEY FALL INTO TWO DIVISIONS—(1) FICTION; (2) GENERAL LITERATURE.


AMONG THE AUTHORS CONTRIBUTING ARE

E. M. ALBANESI

R. BAGOT

H. C. BAILEY

ARNOLD BENNETT

E. F. BENSON

G. A. BIRMINGHAM

MARJORIE BOWEN

AGNES & EGERTON CASTLE

G. K. CHESTERTON

JOSEPH CONRAD

DOROTHEA CONYERS

MARIE CORELLI

S. R. CROCKETT

B. M. CROKER

FRANK DANBY

A. CONAN DOYLE

BEATRICE HARRADEN

ROBERT HICHENS

ANTHONY HOPE

W. W. JACOBS

BASIL KING

RUDYARD KIPLING

WM. LE QUEUX

JACK LONDON

MRS. BELLOC LOWNDES

E. V. LUCAS

MAURICE MAETERLINCK

ARCHIBALD MARSHALL

S. MacNAUGHTAN

LUCAS MALET

M. E. MANN

A. E. W. MASON

W. B. MAXWELL

A. A. MILNE

ELINOR MORDAUNT

BARONESS ORCZY

JOHN OXENHAM

SIR GILBERT PARKER

MAX PEMBERTON

ALICE PERRIN

W. PETT RIDGE

EDEN PHILLPOTTS

MRS. ALFRED SIDGWICK

J. C. SNAITH

FREDERICK WATSON

PEGGY WEBLING

H. G. WELLS

STANLEY WEYMAN

OSCAR WILDE

C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON

TRANSCRIBER NOTES

Mis-spelled words and printer errors have been fixed.

[The end of Susan Proudleigh by Herbert G. de Lisser]