The Wind Before the Dawn



THE GIRL ALSO KNELT AT HIS SIDE RENDERING SUCH ASSISTANCE AS WAS IN HER POWER


THE WIND BEFORE

THE DAWN

BY DELL H. MUNGER


A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers               New York


Copyright, 1912, by

Doubleday, Page & Company

All rights reserved, including that of

translation into foreign languages,

including the Scandinavian




CONTENTS

I Castles in Spain   3
II Brushing up to go to Topeka   43
III Reforms not easy to Discuss   74
IV A cultured man   92
V Reaching hungry hands toward a symbol   115
VI “Didn’t take ’em long”   131
VII Erasing her blackboard   150
VIII Cyclones   174
IX “Against her instincts, against her better judgment, against her will”   195
X Philosophy of Elizabeth’s life voiced   210
XI “Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as unto the Lord”   224
XII “Pore little woman”   266
XIII “Ennobled by the reflected story of another’s goodness and love”   291
XIV Mortgages of soul   317
XV Hugh Noland   353
XVI Revivifying fires   356
XVII Adjusting domestic to social ideals   372
XVIII The child of her body   399
XIX “Her wages, food and clothing she must accept”   419
XX The cream-jars of her life   426
XXI Bound to the stake   458
XXII “There are some things we have to settle for ourselves”   467
XXIII “At any cost”   496
XXIV Facing consequences   506
XXV “The weight of a dollaree and out of debt don’t forget that”   534
XXVI “Was—was my papa here then?”   540
XXVII To do over, and to do better, was the opportunity offered   548
XXVIII “Till death do you part” considered   562


THE WIND BEFORE THE DAWN



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