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  THE OPENED SHUTTERS

  A Novel

  by

  CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM

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  By Clara Louise Burnham

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  THE OPENED SHUTTERS

  A Novel

  by

  CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM

  With Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher

  SYLVIA_From a drawing by Harrison Fisher_]

  Boston and New YorkHoughton, Mifflin and CompanyThe Riverside Press, Cambridge1906

  Copyright 1906 by Clara Louise BurnhamAll Rights Reserved

  Published October 1906

  TOC. D. T.

  CONTENTS

  I. JUDGE TRENT 1

  II. MARTHA LACEY 12

  III. A RAILWAY TRIP 22

  IV. HOTEL FRISBIE 29

  V. JUDGE TRENT'S STUDY 43

  VI. SYLVIA'S CALLER 57

  VII. THE MILL FARM 69

  VIII. IN HARBOR 82

  IX. EDNA DERWENT 91

  X. CAPITULATION 101

  XI. THINKRIGHT'S LETTER 112

  XII. A LOST OAR 124

  XIII. UNCLE AND NIECE 135

  XIV. BLIND MAN'S HOLIDAY 146

  XV. A FLITTING 155

  XVI. EVOLUTION 161

  XVII. THE ROSY CLOUD 170

  XVIII. HAWK ISLAND 180

  XIX. A NOR'EASTER 189

  XX. THE POOL 200

  XXI. A SWIMMING LESSON 213

  XXII. BLUEBERRYING 222

  XXIII. A PHILTRE 228

  XXIV. SYLVIA'S MYSTERY 239

  XXV. THE LITTLE RIFT 248

  XXVI. REVELATION 257

  XXVII. MISUNDERSTANDING 265

  XXVIII. THE POTION 277

  XXIX. THE WHITE BAG 288

  XXX. THE LIGHT BREAKS 297

  XXXI. RECONCILIATION 309

  XXXII. A SOFTENED BLOW 321

  XXXIII. "LOVE ALONE WILL STAY " 330

  THE OPENED SHUTTERS