April Hopes. William Dean Howells

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      April Hopes

      WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

      

      

      

       April Hopes, W. D. Howells

       Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck

       86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9

       Deutschland

      

       ISBN: 9783849657475

      

       www.jazzybee-verlag.de

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      CONTENTS:

       I. 1

       II. 7

       III. 11

       IV. 13

       V. 15

       VI. 20

       VII. 25

       VIII. 29

       IX. 35

       X. 39

       XI. 46

       XII. 52

       XIII. 54

       XIV. 59

       XV. 65

       XVI. 71

       XVII. 74

       XVIII. 80

       XIX. 85

       XX. 91

       XXI. 99

       XXII. 104

       XXIII. 109

       XXIV. 115

       XXV. 123

       XXVI. 127

       XXVII. 133

       XXVIII. 140

       XXIX. 144

       XXX. 148

       XXXI. 156

       XXXII. 160

       XXXIII: 164

       XXXIV. 169

       XXXV. 172

       XXXVI. 178

       XXXVII. 181

       XXXVIII. 186

       XXXIX. 193

       XL. 197

       XLI. 201

       XLII. 206

       XLIII 209

       XLIV. 215

       XLV. 221

       XLVI. 226

       XLVII. 230

       XLVIII. 235

       XLIX. 240

       L. 254

      I.

      From his place on the floor of the Hemenway Gymnasium Mr. Elbridge G. Mavering looked on at the Class Day gaiety with the advantage which his stature, gave him over most people there. Hundreds of these were pretty girls, in a great variety of charming costumes, such as the eclecticism of modern fashion permits, and all sorts of ingenious compromises between walking dress and ball dress. It struck him that the young men on whose arms they hung, in promenading around the long oval within the crowd of stationary spectators, were very much younger than students used to be, whether they wore the dress-coats of the Seniors or the cut-away of the Juniors and Sophomores; and the young girls themselves did not look so old as he remembered them in his day. There was a band playing