Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 / 2008-09-22 00:00:00
EBOOK THE BUTTERFLY HOUSE ***
Produced by Jeff Kaylin and Andrew Sly
[Illustration: "You must steal in and not wake anybody"]
The Butterfly House
By
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Author of
"A Humble Romance," "A New England Nun,"
"The Winning Lady," etc.
With illustrations by
Paul Julien Meylan
New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1912
Chapter I
Fairbridge, the little New Jersey village, or rather city (for it had
won municipal government some years before, in spite of the protest
of far-seeing citizens who descried in the distance bonded debts out
of proportion to the tiny shoulders of the place), was a misnomer.
Often a person, being in Fairbridge for the first time, and being
driven by way of entertainment about the rural streets, would
inquire, "Why Fairbridge?"
Bridges there were none, except those over which the trains thundered
to and from New York, and the adjective, except to old inhabitants
who had a curious fierce loyalty for the place, did not seemingly
apply. Fairbridge could hardly, by an unbiassed person who did not
dwell in the little village and view its features through the rosy
glamour of home life, be called "fair.
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