The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary by Anne Warner Author of “A Woman’s Will,” “Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop,” “Susan Clegg and a Man in the House,” etc. NEW EDITION With Additional Pictures from the Play Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1910 Copyright, 1904, By Ainslee Magazine Company. Copyright, 1905, By Little, Brown, and Company. Copyright, 1907, By Little, Brown, and Company, All rights reserved Fourteenth Printing Printers S.J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U.S.A. Contents Illustrations Chapter One Introducing Aunt Mary The first time that Jack was threatened with expulsion from college his Aunt Mary was much surprised and decidedly vexed—mainly at the college. His family were less surprised, viewing the young man through a clearer atmosphere than his Aunt Mary ever had, and knowing that he had barely escaped similar experiences earlier in his career by invariably leaving school the day before the board of inquiry convened. Jack’s preparatory days having been more or less tempestous, his family (Aunt Mary excepted) had expected some sort of after-clap when he entered college. Nevertheless, they had fervently hoped that it would not be quite as bad as this. Jack’s sister Arethusa was visiting her aunt when the news came. Not because she wanted to, for the old lady was dreadfully deaf and fearfully arbitrary, but because Lucinda had said that she must go to her cousin’s wedding, and the family always had to bow to Lucinda’s mandates. Lucinda was Aunt Mary’s maid, but she had become so indispensable as a sitter at the off-end of the latter’s ear-trumpet that none of the grand-nephews or grand-nieces ever thought for an instant of crossing one of her wishes.
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