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Summer

By: Edith Wharton

...ith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Summer by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...arton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Summer by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- t... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Summer by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Serie... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Summer by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Edith Wharton Summer by Edith Wharton 1917 I A GIRL CAME OUT OF LAWYER Roya... ...Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Edith Wharton Summer by Edith Wharton 1917 I A GIRL CAME OUT OF LAWYER Royall’s h... ...memories of Nettleton, and North Dormer shrank to its real size. As she 5 Edith Wharton looked up and down it, from lawyer Royall’s faded red house a... ...es of Nettleton, and North Dormer shrank to its real size. As she 5 Edith Wharton looked up and down it, from lawyer Royall’s faded red house at one ... ...library. Without taking any notice of her he began to move slowly 7 Edith Wharton about the long vault-like room, his hands behind his back, his shor...

Excerpt: A girl came out of lawyer Royall?s house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike transparent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoulders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields and down the grassy road that takes the name of street when it passes through North Dormer....

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