Lesley Chilton

IS HER . XVIII. THE WINTER S EA . SIX. L DOGI LEW ELCOME . SS. I ECHL-ITIS . viii CONTENTS XXI . THE COMBAT . . . . . . . 24 1 XXII. ATRUCE . . . . . . . 266 XXIII . Dfs ALITERV ISUM . . . . . . 27 7 XXIV . A TRIAL O F INDEPENDENCE . . . 294 XXV . WITHOU C T O ROMIBE . . . . . 30 3 XXVI . A BELATED CA LL . . . . . 317 XXVII . IN THE SHADOW . . . . . . 33 0 XXVIII . THE LAST D AY . . . . . . 348 LESLEY CEIILTON LESLEY CHILTON TWO POINTS OF YIEW LESLEY -- LESLEY CHILTON -- It was the never ending duel between the old and the young, between the timid and sheltered and the self-reliant and progressive. Aunt and niece were a marked contrast. Mrs. Freeman was a frail, slight woman, with prematurely white hair, and with one of those refined faces that suggest the old-fashioned term of gentlewoman. Lesley w s tan, and she had that ovorflowing vitality which acts as a magnet to those less fortunately endowed, while in addition to the charm of health and good spirits, there was a softness in her dark eyes that made one feel she had a nature not to be fathomed at once. She was , often called beautiful, but her beauty was of coloring and expression rather than of line. Lesley got up and, with a sigh, gathered the loose sheets of her essay together. She had written the paper in a tone of such moderation that she hoped it could not offend the most conservative reader. She had read it to her aunt to find out how it would strike a conventional woman of the old school, and she had discovered to her sorrow. What have I said that you think could do . harm to any one she asked, with her hand on the door. I think it will all do harm, her aunt replied very gently. Your doctrines, if acted on, would foster individualism and selfishness, and tend to weaken family ties, and to do away with selfabnegation and self - sacrifice. Aunt Irene The girl paused, trying to put herself in touch with this other mind which was so hopelessly unlike her own, that it sometimes seemed as if they did not think in the same language. LLSurelyy, ou dont believe that it is wrong to develop our best powers she asked. Of course not, dear but a womans power lies in the kingdom of home. Her aunt paused in a contented way, as if she had said something as convincing as it was original...