



Produced by Al Haines










[Frontispiece: "YOU ARE SO GENEROUS TO ME" (page 24)]





AVERY


_By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps_




BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1902




COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY HARPER & BROS.

COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


_Published October, 1902_




_Avery_ originally appeared as a serial in _Harper's Magazine_ under
the title of _His Wife_.




AVERY



PART I

"Oh, Pink!  Mother _can't_ lift you....  I would if I could....  Yes, I
know I used to--

"Molly, take the baby.  Couldn't you amuse him, somehow?  Perhaps, if
you tried hard, you could keep him still