Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
I. Sally at Home II. On the Way to School III. Unpopularity IV. A Cold Shoulder V. Sally is Taken Up VI. An Escapade VII. Penalties VIII. A Rift in the Lute IX. A Broad Hint X. The Breach Widens XI. A Night Adventure XII. Sally at the Fair XIII. "Just Silliness" XIV. Autolycus...
I. Sally at Home II. On the Way to School III. Unpopularity IV. A Cold Shoulder V. Sally is Taken Up VI. An Escapade VII. Penalties VIII. A Rift in the Lute IX. A Broad Hint X....
2. Part 2"That I am in the Remove--which is above the Fourths, isn't it?--and so I am not likely to see much of you children. As to your manners, give me back that _Pearson's_."
3. Part 3"Beast!" muttered the girl; but during breakfast learned from general conversation that Mabel Gosson had been right in her prophecy. Patty Dolbey had developed measles, and Fris...
4. Part 4"Why, behind, of course; that is, if she is not afraid of your driving. Let me introduce Miss Sally Brendan--my cousin, Austin Ferrars, who has nearly killed us. Sally was trudg...
5. Part 5"And she'll have that fat idiot purring before they have gone the length of the playing-fields," said Mabel Gosson, with an admiring sigh. "Peter is a wonder, you know. Why, any...
6. Part 6"I'm not clever enough to answer you," she said at last, in a low voice; "but you know what I think of you, and what a dirty game you have just played--poisoning Sally's mind. O...
7. Part 7The humiliation was dreadful. Sally could not imagine how she would ever survive it if Trina and her party were to recognise her in such a position; but when at last the stream...
8. Part 8Down below, she could see some of the convalescents from measles walking arm in arm, or playing crazy croquet, on a lawn that was all bumps and slopes. The sound of good-natured...
9. Part 9"She--Peter, you know--said there were races to-day in the Clinton direction. I expect she would have to go to them. Staying with people like that she would have to do what they...
10. Part 10In the end, one admirer presented herself--a putty-faced girl, called Catherine Dowl, who had been in the Lower Fifth for years, and was almost as much disliked there as Sally h...
11. Part 11"It would be better if there were someone with you," she had said, but did not press the point when Sally, terrified that Catherine Dowl's name might be mentioned as a possible...
12. Part 12"You'd better be back by 3.30," called Miss Cheeseman after them, but they pretended not to hear, and went on sulkily down the drive. When they reached the road Sally said:
13. Part 13Her voice broke, and the tears came into her eyes. They were real tears, for she had suddenly remembered how Tolly would stand in the stable doorway, and look up at her, and bar...
14. Part 14"It's from outside," said Violet. "Perhaps they've guessed we are here. Now, how on earth are we to let them know?" And she and Sally gazed up in silence at the three feet or mo...