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Title: The Garden Party
Author: Katherine Mansfield
Release Date: August 20, 2008 [EBook #1429]
Language: English
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THE GARDEN PARTY
By Katherine Mansfield
Contents
1. AT THE BAY.
Chapter 1.I.
Chapter 1.II.
Chapter 1.III.
Chapter 1.IV.
Chapter 1.V.
Chapter 1.VI.
Chapter 1.VII.
Chapter 1.VIII.
Chapter 1.IX.
Chapter 1.X.
Chapter 1.XI.
Chapter 1.XII.
Chapter 1.XIII.
2. THE GARDEN PARTY.
3. THE DAUGHTERS OF THE LATE COLONEL.
Chapter 3.I.
Chapter 3.II.
Chapter 3.III.
Chapter 3.IV.
Chapter 3.V.
Chapter 3.VI.
Chapter 3.VII.
Chapter 3.VIII.
Chapter 3.IX.
Chapter 3.X.
Chapter 3.XI.
Chapter 3.XII.
4. MR. AND MRS. DOVE.
5. THE YOUNG GIRL.
6. LIFE OF MA PARKER.
7. MARRIAGE A LA MODE.
8. THE VOYAGE.
9. MISS BRILL.
10. HER FIRST BALL.
11. THE SINGING LESSON.
12. THE STRANGER
13. BANK HOLIDAY.
14. AN IDEAL FAMILY.
15. THE LADY'S MAID.
1. AT THE BAY.
Chapter 1.I.
Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea- mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and the paddocks and bungalows began. The sandy road was gone and the paddocks and bungalows the other side of it; there were no white dunes covered with reddish grass beyond them; there was nothing to mark which was beach and where was the sea. A heavy dew had fallen. The grass was blue. Big drops hung on the bushes and just did not