Peggy Parsons at Prep School

"Don't allow what?" said Peggy, beginning to prance before the mirror to admire the fluttering folds of her new blue silk kimono, which had been given her by a cousin the week b...

"Now I am going to put my young ladies upon their honor to tell me which one of you showed so little regard for me and for the school as to conduct herself in this manner." The...

An eventful day for Peggy came after two weeks of school. In it began a curious series of happenings that added flavor to her whole school life, and gave her, finally, the power...

She was doing what no one else in town would have dared to do, and as she neared the old house, with its tumbled-down step, she began to wonder if perhaps she was afraid.

As Peggy started running back to the place she had left the girls, she became aware that someone in a blue Peter Thompson had come up the hill to wait for her, and was at the mo...

You wouldn't have recognized Gloomy House if you had seen it before the Andrews girls' ministrations and then walked into it in company with those gay young people on Thanksgivi...

"Our family has always been rich,--I cannot remember when the Huntingtons were not supposed to have everything they wanted. I myself have not let the great estates of my ancesto...

The days and weeks seemed to fly by after that, each one full of interest to Peggy, who liked Andrews better and better and was increasingly glad each hour that she had come. Th...

Oh, the glory of waking up in the morning and then before you have time to wonder where you are, seeing the telegraph poles flying by! On a train, on a train, on a train, Peggy'...

story seemed to have some truth in it, and if only my feelings hadn't gotten away with me we'd be there yet, hearing all the things that are ever going to happen to us, I'm perf...

The school grounds shone and blazed under a triumphant sun, and out around them as far as they could see was a great white world. One of the most important gifts of the Foster f...

"Why, because," said Katharine, "the clairvoyant woman said that she saw a young man in a college room playing a mandolin,--you remember? And he answers all the rest of her requ...

They could see Mr. Huntington sitting in the library, reading, as they came up the snowy walk. The room looked warm and peaceful and there was a contented expression on his face...

In the days that followed after the winter snow's melting it seemed to Peggy that she was seeing the world by sunlight for the first time. The wonderful new lights that fell on...

Even the girls at Andrews, with heads full of friendships, coming examinations and summer plans, felt this world-old impulse. School was too small. The roads and fields that the...

"Peggy, hurry up and come to bed, the light just shines in my eyes, and _shines_ in my eyes," complained Katherine that night from her side of the room, "and it's so unlike you...