The Ancient Law

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

BOOK FIRST THE NEW LIFE

BOOK SECOND THE DAY OF RECKONING

BOOK THIRD THE LARGER PRISON

BOOK FOURTH LIBERATION

image of title page: The Ancient Law By ELLEN GLASGOW New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1908

Copyright, 1908, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, January, 1908

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Including that of Translation into Foreign Languages
Including the Scandinavian

TO
MY GOOD FRIEND EFFENDI

Book First—The New Life
CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The Road	3
II.	The Night	15
III.	The Return to Tappahannock	31
IV.	The Dream of Daniel Smith	42
V.	At Tappahannock	54
VI.	The Pretty Daughter of the Mayor	62
VII.	Shows the Graces of Adversity	72
VIII.	"Ten Commandment Smith"	90
IX.	The Old and the New	101
X.	His Neighbour's Garden	111
XI.	Bullfinch's Hollow	123
XII.	A String of Coral	135

Book Second—The Day of Reckoning

I.	In Which a Stranger Appears	147
II.	Ordway Compromises With the Past	162
III.	A Change of Lodging	174
IV.	Shows That a Laugh Does not Heal a Heartache	185
V.	Treats of a Great Passion in a Simple Soul	196
VI.	In Which Baxter Plots	209
VII.	Shows That Politeness, Like Charity, Is an Elastic Mantle	222
VIII.	The Turn of the Wheel	234
IX.	At the Cross-roads	248
X.	Between Man and Man	256
XI.	Between Man and Woman	268

Book Third—The Larger Prison

I.	The Return to Life	281
II.	His Own Place	290
III.	The Outward Pattern	303
IV.	The Letter and the Spirit	317
V.	The Will of Alice	329
VI.	The Iron Bars	341
VII.	The Vision and the Fact	353
VIII.	The Weakness in Strength	363

Book Fourth—Liberation

I.	The Inward Light	379
II.	At Tappahannock Again	392
III.	Alice's Marriage	409
IV.	The Power of the Blood	420
V.	The House of Dreams	434
VI.	The Ultimate Choice	443
VII.	Flight	454
VIII.	The End of the Road	469
IX.	The Light Beyond	482

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