Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 64242-h.htm or 64242-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/64242/64242-h/64242-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/64242/64242-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/carcelliniemeral00harriala THE CARCELLINI EMERALD WITH OTHER TALES [Illustration: “MAID? NEVER HAD SUCH A THING IN MY LIFE,” LAUGHED CECILY; “AND WHAT WOULD HA’ BEEN THE USE, WHEN MR. LENVALE WOULD INSIST ON ESCORTING ME.”] THE CARCELLINI EMERALD WITH OTHER TALES by MRS. BURTON HARRISON [Illustration: (Colophon)] Herbert S. Stone and Company Chicago and New York MDCCCXCIX Copyright 1899 by Herbert S. Stone & Co. THE PUBLISHERS ACKNOWLEDGE THE COURTESY OF THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY (THE SATURDAY EVENING POST), MAST, CROWELL AND KIRKPATRICK (THE WOMAN’S HOME COMPANION), AND HARPER AND BROTHERS, IN ALLOWING THE USE OF ILLUSTRATIONS CONTENTS PAGE The Carcellini Emerald 3 An Author’s Reading and its Consequences 77 Leander of Betsy’s Pride 103 The Three Misses Benedict at Yale 123 A Girl of the Period 169 The Stolen Stradivarius 205 Wanted: A Chaperon 287 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE “MAID? NEVER HAD SUCH A THING IN MY LIFE,” LAUGHED CECILY; “AND WHAT WOULD HA’ BEEN THE USE, WHEN MR. LENVALE WOULD INSIST ON ESCORTING ME.” Frontispiece “AN OPPORTUNITY TO DECK OUT HER BOARD WITH AN EFFECT.” 80 “MR. BLUDGEON HAD BETTER BE READ THAN SEEN.” 88 “NEED I SAY THAT IT GOES TO MY INMOST--” 98 THE THREE MISSES BENEDICT AT YALE. 124 “AND WITH GLOOM IN HIS HEART HE WENT BACK TO HIS LONELY ROOM AND LIFE.” 154 “RUSSELL REAPPEARED, BRINGING WITH HIM THE SODDEN FORM OF AGNES.” 162 “MY DEAR KATE, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HARD PUT TO IT I AM TO MAKE ENDS MEET. I AM SO POOR IT IS A SCANDAL.” 288 THE CARCELLINI EMERALD THE CARCELLINI EMERALD I