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A Rivermouth Romance

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Before breakfast on a July morning in 1860, Margaret Callaghan slips out of the Bilkins household in Rivermouth and returns with a marriage certificate. The cook has married Larry O'Rourke, a young sailor, without telling the elderly couple she has served for nearly twenty years. His arrival at their door turns her carefully guarded secret into a household disturbance. Thomas Bailey Aldrich builds this comic tale around marriage, loyalty and the awkward business of accommodating another person's choices.

The seaport setting gives the story its passing sailors, quiet streets and connection to life at sea. Inside the Bilkins home, affection competes with irritation. When Larry takes up gardening, his confident mistakes with plants and a thermometer supply a different kind of trouble.

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) was an American writer, poet, critic and editor. He edited The Atlantic Monthly for many years and published writers such as Charles W. Chesnutt there. His semi-autobiographical book "The Story of a Bad Boy" gave rise to the bad boy's book subgenre in nineteenth-century American literature.

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24
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English
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