Subject for November, 2016
Chapter 1 – Polly Arrives
Subject: An Old-Fashioned Girl
"IT ‘S time to go to the station, Tom." "Come on, then." "Oh, I ‘m not going; it ‘s too wet. Should n’t have a crimp left if I ...
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Chapter 24 – Down The River
Subject: Jack And Jill
A fortnight later, the boys were picking apples one golden October afternoon, and the girls were hurrying to finish their work, that they might go and help the harvesters. It ...
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Preface
Subject: An Old-Fashioned Girl
AS a preface is the only place where an author can with propriety explain a purpose or apologize for shortcomings, I venture to avail myself of the privilege to make a statemen...
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Chapter 23 – Cattle Show
Subject: Jack And Jill
The children were not the only ones who had learned something at Pebbly Beach. Mrs. Minot had talked a good deal with some very superior persons, and received light upon vario...
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Chapter 22 – A Happy Day
Subject: Jack And Jill
"Oh dear! Only a week more, and then we must go back. Don’t you hate the thoughts of it?" said Jack, as he was giving Jill her early walk on the beach one Augu...
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Chapter 8 – Which?
Subject: The Mysterious Key And What it Opened
"A Gentleman, my lady." Taking a card from the silver salver on which the servant offered it, Lady Trevlyn read, "Paul Talbot," and below the name these pe...
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Chapter 21 – Pebbly Beach
Subject: Jack And Jill
"Now, Mr. Jack, it is a moral impossibility to get all those things into one trunk, and you mustn’t ask it of me," said Mrs. Pecq, in a tone of despair, as she...
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Chapter 7 – The Secret Key
Subject: The Mysterious Key And What it Opened
"Is Lady Trevlyn at home, Bedford?" asked Paul, as he presented himself at an early hour next day, wearing the keen, stern expression which made him look ten years o...
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Chapter 20 – A Sweet Memory
Subject: Jack And Jill
Now the lovely June days had come, everything began to look really summer-like; school would soon be over, and the young people were joyfully preparing for the long vacation. ...
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Chapter 6 – Fair Helen
Subject: The Mysterious Key And What it Opened
To no one but her mother and Hester did Lillian confide the discovery she had made. None of the former servants but old Bedford remained with them, and till Paul chose to rene...
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