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The Song of the Lark — Willa Cather
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The Song of the Lark
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1. For the Next Four Days It Seemed to Dr. Archie That His Patient Might
2. Being Sick Was All Very Well, but Thea Knew From Experience That
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4. The Children in the Primary Grades Were Sometimes Required to Make
5. Seen From a Balloon, Moonstone Would Have Looked Like a Noah's Ark Town
6. Thea's Twelfth Birthday Had Passed a Few Weeks Before Her Memorable
7. Winter Was Long in Coming That Year. Throughout October the Days Were
8. Mr. Kronborg Considered Thea a Remarkable Child; but So Were All His
9. Wunsch and Old Fritz and Spanish Johnny Celebrated Christmas Together,
10. One Saturday, Late in June, Thea Arrived Early for Her Lesson. as She
11. One July Night, When the Moon Was Full, Dr. Archie Was Coming Up From
12. At the Beginning of June, When School Closed, Thea Had Told Wunsch That
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14. By the Time Thea's Fifteenth Birthday Came Round, She Was Established
15. The Pleasantest Experience Thea Had That Summer Was a Trip That She and
16. The Summer Flew by. Thea Was Glad When Ray Kennedy Had a Sunday in Town
17. Mr. Kronborg Was Too Fond of His Ease and Too Sensible to Worry His
18. It Is Well for Its Peace of Mind That the Traveling Public Takes
19. On Monday Morning, the Day After Ray Kennedy's Funeral, Dr. Archie
20. Thea and Dr. Archie Had Been Gone From Moonstone Four Days. on the
21. So Thea Did Not Go to a Boarding-House After All. When Dr. Archie Left
22. Andor Harsanyi Had Never Had a Pupil in the Least Like Thea Kronborg.
23. After That Evening Thea's Work with Harsanyi Changed Somewhat. He
24. By the First of February Thea Had Been in Chicago Almost Four Months,
25. One Afternoon in April, Theodore Thomas, the Conductor of the Chicago
26. All Through the Lesson Thea Had Felt That Harsanyi Was Restless and
27. One Warm Damp June Night the Denver Express Was Speeding Westward
28. Thea Reached Moonstone in the Late Afternoon, and All the Kronborgs
29. Spanish Johnny Had No Shop of His Own, but He Kept a Table and an
30. Mrs. Kronborg Had Said That Thea Was Not to Be Disturbed on Sunday
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32. During That Winter Thea Lived in So Many Places That Sometimes at Night
33. While Her Living Arrangements Were So Casual and Fortuitous, Bowers's
34. Thea Noticed That Bowers Took Rather More Pains with Her Now That Fred
35. March Began Badly for Thea. She Had a Cold During the First Week, and
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37. The San Francisco Mountain Lies in Northern Arizona, Above Flagstaff,
38. Thea's Life at the Ottenburg Ranch Was Simple and Full of Light, Like
39. The Faculty of Observation Was Never Highly Developed in Thea Kronborg.
40. Thea Had a Superstitious Feeling About the Potsherds, and Liked Better
41. One Sunday Afternoon Late in July Old Henry Biltmer Was Rheumatically
42. Day Was Breaking Over Panther Canyon. the Gulf Was Cold and Full of
43. From the Day of Fred's Arrival, He and Thea Were Unceasingly Active.
44. On the First Day of September Fred Ottenburg and Thea Kronborg Left
45. Dr. Howard Archie Had Come Down to Denver for a Meeting of the
46. Archie
47. Fred Ottenburg, Smartly Dressed for the Afternoon, with a Long Black
48. On Friday Afternoon Thea Kronborg Was Walking Excitedly Up and Down Her
49. At Nine O'Clock That Evening Our Three Friends Were Seated in the
50. Thea Was to Sail on Tuesday, at Noon, and on Saturday Fred Ottenburg
51. It Is a Glorious Winter Day. Denver, Standing on Her High Plateau Under
52. When Ottenburg and His Host Reached the House on Colfax Avenue, They
53. For the First Four Years After Thea Went to Germany Things Went on as
54. One Bright Morning Late in February Dr. Archie Was Breakfasting
55. When Archie Got Back to His Hotel at Two O'Clock in the Morning, He
56. It Was Late on the Morning After the Night She Sang Elsa, When Thea
57. On Saturday Night Dr. Archie Went with Fred Ottenburg to Hear
58. The "Ring of the Niebelungs" Was to Be Given at the Metropolitan on
59. When Archie and Ottenburg Dined with Thea on Saturday Evening, They
60. Ottenburg Dismissed His Taxicab at the 91st Street Entrance of the Park
61. Dr. Archie Saw Nothing of Thea During the Following Week. After Several
62. Epilogue
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