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The Golden Road (1913)
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
4717412The Golden Road1913Lucy Maud Montgomery

THE GOLDEN ROAD

Novels of

L. M. MONTGOMERY


Each one volume, cloth decorative, illustrated . . . $2.25

THE FOUR AVONLEA BOOKS

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Avonlea

Chronicles of Avonlea

Anne of the Island

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OTHER NOVELS

Kilmeny of the Orchard

The Story Girl

The Golden Road

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Anne of Green Gables

DeLuxe Edition

Large 12mo. Attractively bount Eight illustrations in full color - $2.50

L. C. PAGE & COMPANY

53 Beacon Street Boston, Mass.

THE

GOLDEN ROAD


By

L. M. MONTGOMERY

Author of "Anne of Green Gables," "Anne of Avonlea," "Kilmeny of the Orchard," "The Story Girl," etc.


With frontispiece in colour by

GEORGE GIBBS


"Life was a rose-lipped comrade

With purple flowers dripping from her fingers."

The Author.

This book, while produced under wartime conditions, in full compliance with government regulations for the conservation of paper and other essential materials, is COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED


GROSSET & DUNLAP

Publishers NEW YORK

By arrangement with L. C. Page & Company

Copyright, 1913

By The Page Company

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Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London

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All rights reserved

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA


TO

THE MEMORY OF

Aunt Mary Lawson

WHO TOLD ME MANY OF THE TALES

REPEATED BY THE

STORY GIRL

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
Foreword vii
I. A New Departure 1
II. A Will, a Way and a Woman 11
III. The Christmas Harp 23
IV. New Year Resolutions 37
V. The First Number of Our Magazine 54
VI. Great-aunt Eliza’s Visit 67
VII. We Visit Cousin Mattie’s 90
VIII. We Visit Peg Bowen 96
IX. Extracts from the February and March Numbers of Our Magazine 118
X. Disappearance of Paddy 130
XI. The Witch’s Wishbone 140
XII. Flowers o’ May 147
XIII. A Surprising Announcement 157
XIV. A Prodigal Returns 166
XV. The Rape of the Lock 180
XVI. Aunt Una’s Story 189
XVII. Aunt Olivia’s Wedding 198
XVIII. Sara Ray Helps Out 207
XIX. By Way of the Stars 221
XX. Extracts from Our Magazine 227
XXI. Peg Bowen Comes to Church 238
XXII. The Yankee Storm 253
XXIII. A Missionary Heroine 260
XXIV. A Tantalizing Revelation 271
XXV. The Love Story of the Awkward Man 282
XXVI. Uncle Blair Comes Home 301
XXVII. The Old Order Changeth 313
XXVIII. The Path to Arcady 321
XXIX. We Lose a Friend 336
XXX. Prophecies 343
XXXI. The Last Number of Our Magazine 351
XXXII. Our Last Evening Together 361
XXXIII. The Story Girl Goes 366

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1913, before the cutoff of January 1, 1930.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1942, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 82 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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