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A harum-scarum schoolgirl By: Angela Brazil (1868-1947) |
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[Illustration: "COULD YOU DO ME A KINDNESS, MISS?" SHE ASKED Page 252 ]
A HARUM SCARUM SCHOOLGIRL BY ANGELA BRAZIL Illustrated by John Campbell NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1920, by FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY All rights reserved
Contents CHAP. Page I. A PIXIE GIRL 9 II. STARS AND STRIPES 23 III. A PENNILESS PRINCESS 39 IV. THE RUSH BEARING 51 V. DIANA DARES 65 VI. FRENCH LEAVE 77 VII. LAND GIRLS 91 VIII. ARMISTICE DAY 108 IX. DIANA'S ENGLISH CHRISTMAS 128 X. A FIT OF THE BLUES 141 XI. DIANA TO THE RESCUE 153 XII. DIANA BREAKS OUT 167 XIII. CRUSOE ISLAND 178 XIV. SPOOKS 195 XV. JOY RIDING 207 XVI. A FAMILY CREST 219 XVII. THE GREEN EYED MONSTER 235 XVIII. DIANA'S FOUNDLING 247 XIX. AMBITIONS 259 XX. A TANGLED PLOT 271
Illustrations Page "COULD YOU DO ME A KINDNESS, MISS?" SHE ASKED
Frontispiece "O O O OH! HOW GORGEOUS TO BELONG TO A HIGH FALUTING
FAMILY THAT'S GOT LEGENDS AND GHOSTS!" 48 TWO PAIRS OF BARE FEET WENT SPLASHING JOYOUSLY
INTO THE BROOK 72 WE SET OFF AND RODE ALL THE MORNING 144 ITS COWL FELL BACK, AND DISCLOSED A WELL KNOWN
AND DECIDEDLY MIRTHFUL COUNTENANCE 200 DIANA CALLED AND SHOUTED TO THEM. THEY TOOK
NO NOTICE 240
A HARUM SCARUM SCHOOLGIRL
CHAPTER I A Pixie Girl
"If I'd known!" groaned Winifred Cranston, otherwise Wendy, with a note
of utter tragedy in her usually cheerful voice. "If I'd only known!
D'you think I'd have come trotting back here with my baggage? Not a bit
of it! Nothing in this wide world should have dragged me. I'd have
turned up my hair yes, it's quite long enough to turn up, Jess Paget,
so you needn't look at it so scornfully; it's as nice as yours, and
nicer! Well, I tell you I'd have turned up my hair, and run away and
joined the 'Waacs' or the 'Wrens', or have driven a motor wagon or
conducted a tramcar, or scrubbed floors at a hospital, or done
anything anything , I say! rather than stay at the Abbey without Mrs.
Gifford." "It's pretty stiff, certainly, for the Head to go whisking away like
this," agreed Magsie Wingfield, sitting on the other shaft of the
wheelbarrow. "And without any notice either! It leaves one gasping!" "Stiff? It's the limit! Why didn't she give us decent warning, instead
of springing it on to us in this sudden fashion? I feel weak!" "There wasn't time," explained Sadie Sanderson, who, with Violet Gorton
and Tattie Clegg, occupied, in a tight fit, the interior of the
wheelbarrow. "It was all done at a day's notice. Geraldine's been
telling me the whole history." "Well?" "Mr. Gifford got suddenly exempted, and was made Governor of some
outlandish place with an unpronounceable name in Burma. He telegraphed
to Mrs. Gifford to join him at Marseilles, and go out with him. So she
went that's the long and the short of it!" "Went and left her school behind her," echoed Vi. "I call it simply running away," commented Wendy. "Why couldn't she have
stopped to arrange things say till Christmas and then followed him?" "It's some tiresome red tape business at the War Office. They'd give her
a passport to travel out with him, but not to join him afterwards, so
she thought she'd better take the opportunity and go out with him while
she could. It must have been a terrific scramble for her to get off... Continue reading book >>
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