E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 37972-h.htm or 37972-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/37972/pg37972-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37972/37972-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/sunshinejane00warniala Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). Small capital letters were replaced by all capitals SUNSHINE JANE [Illustration: "Auntie Susan, it's Aunt Matilda and Mr. Beamer." FRONTISPIECE. _See Page 265._] SUNSHINE JANE by ANNE WARNER Author of "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary," "Susan Clegg and Her Friend, Mrs. Lathrop," etc. With Frontispiece by Harriet Roosevelt Richards Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1914 Copyright, 1913, 1914, By Little, Brown, and Company. All rights reserved Published, February, 1914 Reprinted, January, 1914 Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. GENERAL IGNORANCE 1 II. EVERYBODY GETS THERE 6 III. MATILDA TEACHES 22 IV. JANE BEGINS SUNSHINING 37 V. A CHANGE IN THE FEEL OF THINGS 61 VI. LORENZO RATH 84 VII. A NEW OUTLOOK ON MATILDA 98 VIII. SOUL-UPLIFTING 127 IX. MADELEINE'S SECRET 138 X. OLD MRS. CROFT 148 XI. SHE SLEEPS 159 XII. EMILY'S PROJECT 169 XIII. EMILY IS HERSELF FREELY 191 XIV. JANE'S CONVERTS 208 XV. REAL CONVERSATION 220 XVI. THE MOST WONDERFUL THING EVER HAPPENED 233 XVII. WHY JANE SHOULD HAVE BELIEVED 243 XVIII. IN A PERFECTLY RIGHT WAY 256 XIX. THE RESULTS 277 SUNSHINE JANE SUNSHINE JANE CHAPTER I GENERAL IGNORANCE