title: The Butterfly Book: The Inner Journey to the Beloved
author: Elizabeth Hess Stamper
description: Elizabeth Hess Stamper is a psychotherapist, retreat leader and Interfaith minister. Her other work includes Believing in Love: Sexuality and Healing in Spiritual Relationship, and the poetry anthology For God and Other Lovers. She lives in a small beach town in Florida where she happily shares her life with a large, loving family and spiritual community.
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  # The Butterfly House
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Chapter I
  
  
  Chapter II
  
  
  Chapter III
  
  
  Chapter IV
  
  
  Chapter V
  
  
  Chapter VI
  
  
  Chapter VII
  
  
  Chapter VIII
  
  
  Chapter IX
  
  
  
  
  
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  Produced by Jeff Kaylin and Andrew Sly
  
  
  
  
  
  [Illustration: “You must steal in and not wake anybody"]
  
  
  The Butterfly House
  
  
  By
  
  
  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  
  
  Author of
  
  
  “A Humble Romance,” “A New England Nun,”
  
  
  “The Winning Lady,” etc.
  
  
  With illustrations by
  
  
  Paul Julien Meylan
  
  
  New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1912
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Fairbridge, the little New Jersey village, or rather city (for it
  
  
  had won municipal government some years before, in spite of the protest
  
  
  of far-seeing citizens who descried in the distance bonded debts out of
  
  
  proportion to the tiny shoulders of the place), was a misnomer. Often a
  
  
  person, being in Fairbridge for the fir