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OUR CONSULTATION TOOK A GOOD WHILE _Frontispiece_ "GOOD-BYE!" _To face page_ 71 "LITTLE GIRLS MUST NOT CONTRADICT, AND MUST NOT BE RUDE" 82 "MY POOR LITTLE GIRL, WHAT _IS_ THE MATTER?" 108 I CREPT DOWNSTAIRS, PAST ONE SCHOOLROOM WITH ITS CLOSED DOOR 141 THE BROTHER LIONS ROSE...
OUR CONSULTATION TOOK A GOOD WHILE _Frontispiece_ "GOOD-BYE!" _To face page_ 71 "LITTLE GIRLS MUST NOT CONTRADICT, AND MUST NOT BE RUDE" 82 "MY POOR LITTLE GIRL, WHAT _IS_ THE M...
2. CHAPTER I.It is already a long time since I was a little girl. Sometimes, when I look out upon the world and see how many changes have come about, how different many things are from what...
3. CHAPTER II."No, of course we don't," Haddie agreed. "I should like to spend a whole day in those big show-rooms of his. Couldn't we have jolly games of hide-and-seek, Sis? And then riding...
4. CHAPTER III.Indeed, the very next morning at breakfast I noticed that mamma looked pale and almost as if she had been crying, and father was, so to say, "extra" kind to her and to me. He ta...
5. did. He was two years older, and though he had never been at aboarding-school, still he knew something of school life. There were boarders at his school, and he had often seen and heard how, till they got accustomed to it at any rate, they...
6. CHAPTER IV.That Sunday--that last Sunday I somehow feel inclined to call it--stands out in my memory quite differently from its fellows. Both Haddie and I felt dull and depressed, partly o...
7. CHAPTER V.My first sight of Miss Ledbury was a sort of agreeable disappointment. She was not the least like what I had imagined, though till I did see her I do not think I knew that I had...
8. CHAPTER VI.I could read aloud well, unusually well, I think, for mamma had taken great pains with my pronunciation. She was especially anxious that both Haddie and I should speak well, and...
9. CHAPTER VII.To begin with, the life was very monotonous. Except for the different lessons, one day passed much like another, the principal variety being the coming of Sunday and the two wee...
10. CHAPTER VIII.The history of that first week might stand for the history of several months at Green Bank. That is why I have related it as clearly as possible. In one sense I suppose people w...
11. CHAPTER IX.It would be an exaggeration to say that I did not sleep that night. Children often sleep very heavily when they are specially unhappy, and I was unhappy enough, even before Harr...
12. CHAPTER X.For a minute or two I seemed to feel nothing; then there came over me a sort of shiver, partly of cold, for it _was_ very cold, partly of misery. I roused myself, however. With...
13. CHAPTER XI.It was Miss Fenmore. I knew her again at once. And she called me "my poor little girl"--the very words she had used when she said good-bye to me and looked so sorry before she w...
14. CHAPTER XII.I don't suppose there was anything really infectious about my illness, though nowadays whenever there is any sort of sore throat people are very much on their guard. Perhaps the...
15. Part I. Old Testament. II. New Testament. III. Three Apostles: St.=GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES.= Uniformly printed in 18mo, with Vignette Titles by J. E. MILLAIS, Sir NOEL PATON, T. WOOLNER, W. HOLMAN HUNT, ARTHUR HUGHES, etc. Engraved on Steel. 18...