# The tortoiseshell cat

Author: Royde-Smith, Naomi, 1875-1964

Genre: Young women -- Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78428

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+tortoiseshell+cat+Royde-Smith&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

You could never be quite sure how Mrs. Lysaght would take anything. Even thin Miss Winter, the Secretary, who must have loved her or she could never have stood it, went about her duties murmuring, “I _hope_ I’ve done right....” And, as Miss Fairfax said, you could feel the pit of the poor thing’s stomach sink on _hope_. Miss Fairfax was a little coarse at times: like a man. It was the result of a classical tripos. Gillian had gathered this from Mrs. Lysaght on the bewildering occasion when she had first received the head mistress’s instructions, at tea. Mrs. Lysaght had been in bed that afternoon.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER TWO.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tortoiseshell-cat-78428/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FOUR.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tortoiseshell-cat-78428/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tortoiseshell-cat-78428/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER THREE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tortoiseshell-cat-78428/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER FIVE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tortoiseshell-cat-78428/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER ONE.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tortoiseshell-cat-78428/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER SEVEN.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-tortoiseshell-cat-78428/chapters/7/index.md)