The Ancient Grudge

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The Ancient Grudge (1905)
by Arthur Stanwood Pier
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"The Ancient Grudge" is the irksome sense of obligation felt by one young man to another who has saved his life as a boy, and in the main the novel is a study of the divergent temperaments of these two men. They are students at Harvard together, live in the same town, love the same girl, [...] To some extent the story deals with labor questions, but, while it presents some phases of the problem in an interesting way, it does not go very deeply into the subject. There are several well-drawn minor characters, a quiet sense of humor, and a refined social atmosphere; the weakest point is construction. —From a review in the Nation, October 1905.

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THE ANCIENT GRUDGE

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THE
ANCIENT GRUDGE


By

Arthur Stanwood Pier


"I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him."

Merchant of Venice,



BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1905

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COPYRIGHT 1905 BY ARTHUR STANWOOD PIER

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


Published September 1905

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CONTENTS

  1. I. "A Hero—Always" 1
  2. II. Stewart confers a Favor 13
  3. III. The Parting 29
  4. IV. Halket and Company 46
  5. V. Floyd begins at the Bottom 66
  6. VI. Investigating the Depths 86
  7. VII. Diversions of a Workingman 96
  8. VIII. Lydia 114
  9. IX. A Holiday 129
  10. X. The End of an Apprenticeship 142
  11. XI. Mrs. Halket 156
  12. XII. A Client for Stewart 173
  13. XIII. Called Home 189
  14. XIV. A Failure and a Success 197
  15. XV. The Autobiographer 215
  16. XVI. Stewart acquires Some New Interests 231
  17. XVII. Large Idea of a Philanthropist 248
  18. XVIII. Two Amateurs 273
  19. XIX. Colonel Halket addresses an Audience 298
  20. XX. Last Words 316
  21. XXI. The Great Opportunity 328
  22. XXII. Difficulties of a Man of Taste 344
  23. XXIII. Forcing the Issue 365
  24. XXIV. A Letter to a Newspaper 378
  25. XXV. Interlude 396
  26. XXVI. Widening the Breach 407
  27. XXVII. New Rome and Avalon 427
  28. XXVIII. In Loyalty and Love 443
  29. XXIX. Stewart takes the Field 454
  30. XXX. The Night Attack 467
  31. XXXI. The Two Women 473


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