Marm Lisa

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MARM LISA


BY

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN


The eternal-womanly
Ever leadeth us on

Goethe's Faust.



BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1896

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Copyright, 1896,
By KATE DOUGLAS RIGGS.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

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By Mrs. Wiggin.

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Boston and New York.

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CONTENTS

  1. chapterpage
  2. I. Eden Place 1
  3. II. Mistress Mary's Garden 12
  4. III. A Family Polygon 23
  5. IV. Marm Lisa is Transplanted 37
  6. V. How the New Plant grew 47
  7. VI. From Grubb to Butterfly 61
  8. VII. The Comet and the Fixed Star 70
  9. VIII. The Young Minister's Psychological Observations 84
  10. IX. Marm Lisa's Quest 96
  11. X. The Twins join the Celestials 107
  12. XI. Rhoda frees her Mind 118
  13. XII. Flotsam and Jetsam 132
  14. XIII. Leaves from Mistress Mary's Garden 148
  15. XIV. More Leaves 161
  16. XV. "The Feast o' the Babe" 174
  17. XVI. Cleansing Fires 183


This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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