Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz Edition 1, (August 2007) MARCIA SCHUYLER SIXTH EDITION [Illustration: Copyright by C. Klackner “OH, YOU NAUGHTY MAN!” SHE EXCLAIMED PRETTILY, “HOW DARE YOU!”] Copyright by C. Klackner “OH, YOU NAUGHTY MAN!” SHE EXCLAIMED PRETTILY, “HOW DARE YOU!” Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz Author of “The Story of a Whim,” “According to the Pattern,” “An Unwilling Guest,” etc. _Illustrations by_ E. L. HENRY, N.A. GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS · NEW YORK Copyright, 1908 By J. B. Lippincott Company Published February, 1908 _Electrotyped and printed by J. B. Lippincott Company_ _The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A._ TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF MY FATHER The Rev. CHARLES MONTGOMERY LIVINGSTON WHOSE COMPANIONSHIP AND ENCOURAGEMENT HAVE BEEN MY HELP THROUGH THE YEARS CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX AD PAGES ERRATA Marcia Schuyler CHAPTER I The sun was already up and the grass blades were twinkling with sparkles of dew, as Marcia stepped from the kitchen door. She wore a chocolate calico with little sprigs of red and white scattered over it, her hair was in smooth brown braids down her back, and there was a flush on her round cheeks that might have been but the reflection of the rosy light in the East. Her face was as untroubled as the summer morning, in its freshness, and her eyes as dreamy as the soft clouds that hovered upon the horizon uncertain where they were to be sent for the day. Marcia walked lightly through the grass, and the way behind her sparkled again like that of the girl in the fairy-tale who left jewels wherever she passed.