

This etext was transcribed by Les Bowler.

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                    [Picture: Being thrown by Paprika]





                                 AZALEA’S
                                SILVER WEB


                                    BY
                             ELIA W. PEATTIE
                Author of Azalea; Annie Laurie and Azalea;
                        Azalea at Sunset Gap, etc.

                            _Illustrations by_
                            _E. R. Kirkbride_

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                        [Picture: Publisher logo]

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                         The Reilly & Britton Co.
                                 Chicago

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                             Copyright, 1915
                                    by
                         The Reilly & Britton Co.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER                                    PAGE
          I  GROWN GIRLS                      9
         II  NEW RELATIONS                   27
        III  OWN FOLK                        46
         IV  MADAM GRANDMOTHER               64
          V  MALLOWBANKS                     82
         VI  MY BALL                        101
        VII  GETTING SETTLED                120
       VIII  THE PORTRAIT                   139
         IX  GRANDMOTHER’S STORY            158
          X  “THE WATERS OF QUIET”          177
         XI  A FRIEND                       195
        XII  A TRAVEL LOG                   212
       XIII  CROSSROADS                     231
        XIV  “WHERE THERE IS A WILL”        250
         XV  “RING, HAPPY BELLS”            267

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

So, in a moment more I felt myself—I who had never      _Frontispiece_
been thrown in my life—going over Paprika’s head
We stepped back in the shrubbery and kept very                      84
still while they passed.  Grandmother was weeping
like a hurt child
Azalea’s Coming Out Party                                          114
It was Keefe O