The Butterfly House

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The Butterfly House is a book by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. Chapter I introduces Fairbridge, the little New Jersey village, or rather city. The text says a person in Fairbridge for the first time would often inquire, “Why Fairbridge?” The Zenith Club of Fairbridge always met on Friday afternoons, and the text calls it a cherished aim of the Club to uproot foolish superstitions. The text says Doctor Sturtevant had a very low voice and that his wife had naturally a strident one.

A character named Margaret wonders whether it would be too informal to beg someone to be her guest at her home in Fairbridge next Thursday and remain the weekend, over Sunday. A speaker tells Annie to hurry, saying it is lucky that the speaker's room is away from the others or the speaker should not be sure of getting there unsuspected.

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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) was an American novelist, poet and children's writer. Her ghost stories have been anthologized often, and her collection "Young Lucretia and Other Stories" is among her titles. In 1925 she received the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.