Category: Novels

Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days

I. The Arrival 5 II. My Old Kentucky Home 22 III. Wedding Preparations and Confidences 36 IV. Burglars 51 V. The Wedding 62 VI. Buttermilk Tact 77 VII. Pictures on Memory's Wall 100 VIII. All Kinds of Weather 114 IX. Jimmy 143 X. Aunt Clay Makes a Mistake 154

Chapters

10. CHAPTER VIII.--ALL KINDS OF WEATHER.

The days went dreamily on. Edwin Green lengthened his stay in Kentucky until he really became touchy on the subject, and one day when some one spoke of the old Virginia gentlema...

8. CHAPTER VI.--BUTTERMILK TACT.

Mildred, dressed in her pretty brown traveling suit, off to Iowa; the last slipper and handful of rice thrown; the last lingering guest departed; daylight passed and the moon we...

20. CHAPTER VIII.--THE OLD QUEEN'S CROWD.

"Nance, do you fancy this has really been such a quiet, uneventful college year, or are we just so old and settled that we don't know excitement when we see it? It has been a ve...

14. CHAPTER II.--LEVITY IN THE LEAVEN.

"Molly, do you know you are a grown-up lady?" asked Nance a few days after they had settled themselves and were back in the grind of work. "I have been seeing it in all kinds of...

19. CHAPTER VII.--DREAMS AND REALITIES.

The holidays were all too soon over. Much feasting went on, what with Molly's big turkey and her fruit cake and Rosemary pickles; and the invitations to Mrs. McLean's and Miss W...

13. CHAPTER I.--WELLINGTON AGAIN.

Molly waked from her reverie with a start. It seemed only yesterday that she was coming to Wellington for the first time, "a greeny from Greenville, Green County," as she had be...

17. CHAPTER V.--DODO'S SURPRISE PARTY.

The old red brick house, where Professor Green had his bachelor quarters, had been put in good order for his sister's regime, and with the furniture that had been in storage for...

16. CHAPTER IV.--A BARREL FROM HOME.

Christmas was upon our girls almost before they had unpacked and settled down to work. Mid-year exams. had no terrors for our two post-graduates, but they were working just as h...

3. CHAPTER I.--THE ARRIVAL.

"Oh, Judy, almost home! I wonder who will meet us," cried Molly Brown. "I feel in my bones that you and my family will be as good friends as you and I have always been. You are...

12. CHAPTER X.--AUNT CLAY MAKES A MISTAKE.

"Sister Ann, do you see any dust arising?" called Molly to Judy, who had actually climbed up on the gate post, hoping to see a little farther up the road, expecting the automobi...

5. CHAPTER III.--WEDDING PREPARATIONS AND CONFIDENCES.

The next two weeks were busy ones for all the Brown household: first and foremost, the ever-crying need of clothes to be answered; second, the old house to be put in apple-pie o...

15. CHAPTER III.--HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

Molly and Nance were very busy with their special courses, Nance working at French literature as though she had no other interest in the world, and Molly at English and Domestic...

7. CHAPTER V.--THE WEDDING.

The wedding came off so exactly as Judy had planned it that it seemed to her to be a proof of the theory of transmigration of the soul, and that in a previous incarnation she ha...

9. CHAPTER VII.--PICTURES ON MEMORY'S WALL.

The next week was a very quiet and peaceful one at Chatsworth. There had been so many excitements, with burglars and negro uprisings and what not, that Molly was afraid her visi...

4. CHAPTER II.--MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME.

"How is that for a gate, Molly? I began my holiday by getting the thing in order. It works beautifully now, but the least bit of rough handling gets it off its trolley."

6. CHAPTER IV.--BURGLARS.

"Oh, no, it wasn't that. I knew you were downstairs. I haven't been truly asleep. I was 'possuming.' It is out by the chicken yard, and I am so afraid it is burglars after the p...

11. CHAPTER IX.--JIMMY.

"Judy, Mrs. Woodsmall has just 'phoned over that her hated R. F. D. Woodsmall is bringing you a letter from your father. She says she could only make out it was from him, but co...

18. CHAPTER VI.--MORE SURPRISES.

"Whose voice is that?" exclaimed Molly and Judy in unison; and without waiting to be answered they rushed into the hall to find Kent Brown being warmly greeted by Professor Gree...

2. BOOK II.

I. Wellington Again 170 II. Levity in the Leaven 189 III. History Repeats Itself 208 IV. A Barrel from Home 223 V. Dodo's Surprise Party 241 VI. More Surprises 261 VII. Dreams a...

1. BOOK I.

I. The Arrival 5 II. My Old Kentucky Home 22 III. Wedding Preparations and Confidences 36 IV. Burglars 51 V. The Wedding 62 VI. Buttermilk Tact 77 VII. Pictures on Memory's Wall...