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The Girls and I A Veracious History By: Mrs. Molesworth (1839-1921) |
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[Illustration: 'We ran over the fields by a short cut to a stile on to
the road, where we could see her pass, and there we shouted out again
all our messages.' c. xi. p. 168.]
THE GIRLS AND I: A
Veracious History
[Illustration]
BY MRS MOLESWORTH Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke London Macmillan & Co.
MDCCCXCII
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I OURSELVES 1 CHAPTER II THE DIAMOND ORNAMENT 16 CHAPTER III WORK FOR THE TOWN CRIER 30 CHAPTER IV AT THE DANCING CLASS 46 CHAPTER V RODNEY SQUARE 63 CHAPTER VI THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW 79 CHAPTER VII FOUR 'IF'S' AND A COINCIDENCE 95 CHAPTER VIII MOSSMOOR FARM 110 CHAPTER IX SPYING THE LAND 125 CHAPTER X A LONG AGO ADVENTURE 140 CHAPTER XI MISCHIEF IN THE AIR 157 CHAPTER XII MISS CROSS AT FIRST'S FUR CAPE 173
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
'JACK, DO HELP ME TO FASTEN THIS BRACELET' 24 'I'D GIVE ANYTHING, I'D ALMOST GIVE MYSELF, TO FIND IT' 48 'THE DOOR OPENED A LITTLE WIDER, AND TWO FACES APPEARED' 74 'I JUST STOOD STILL ... AND LOOKED WELL ROUND AT THE VIEW AND
EVERYTHING' 130 'HER GRANDMOTHER ... WENT QUIETLY OUT OF THE PEW WITHOUT A
NOTION BUT THAT THE CHILD WAS BESIDE HER' 153 'WE RAN OVER THE FIELDS BY A SHORT CUT TO A STILE ON TO THE
ROAD, WHERE WE COULD SEE HER PASS, AND THERE WE SHOUTED OUT
AGAIN ALL OUR MESSAGES' 168 'WE ALL THREE SAT LISTENING AND LISTENING' 175
CHAPTER I OURSELVES
I'm Jack. I've always been Jack, ever since I can remember at least,
though I suppose I must have been called 'Baby' for a bit before Serena
came. But she's only a year and a half younger than me, and Maud's only
a year and a quarter behind her, so I can scarcely remember even Serena
being 'Baby'; and Maud's always been so very grown up for her age that
you couldn't fancy her anything but 'Maud.' My real name isn't John though, as you might fancy. It's a much queerer
name, but there's always been one of it in our family ever since some
grandfather or other married a German girl, who called her eldest son
after her own father. So we're accustomed to it, and it doesn't seem so
queer to us as to other people. It's 'Joachim.' 'Jock' seems a better
short for it than 'Jack,' doesn't it? and I believe mother once meant to
call me 'Jock.' But when Serry and Maud came I had to be Jack, for
with Anne and Hebe in front of me, and the two others behind, of course
I was 'Jack in the middle.' There's never been any more of us, and even
if there had I'd have stayed Jack, once I'd got settled into it, you
see. I'm eleven. I'm writing this in the holidays; and if I don't get it
finished before they're done I'll keep adding on to it till I've told
all there is to tell. It's a sort of comfort to me to write about everything, for one way and
another I've had a good deal to put up with, all because of girls .
And I have to be good tempered and nice just because they are girls.
And besides that, I'm really very fond of them; and they're not bad. But
no one who hasn't tried it knows in the least what it is to be one boy
among a lot of girls, 'specially when some of them are rather boy ey
girls, and when you yourself are just a little perhaps just a very
little the other way. I don't think I'm a baby. Honestly I don't, and I'm not going to write
down anything I don't quite think. But I do like to be quiet, and I
like to have things tidy and regular... Continue reading book >>
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