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Girls of the Forest By: L. T. Meade (1854-1914) |
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GUARANTEE The story in this book is complete as written
and published by the Author MACLELLAN ·N·Y· COMPANY GIRLS OF THE FOREST L. T. MEADE AUTHOR OF ALWYN'S FRIENDS, BEYOND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS,
GOOD LUCK, PLAYMATES, PRETTY GIRL AND THE OTHERS,
THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL, ETC. AKRON, OHIO
MACLELLAN ·N·Y· COMPANY
PUBLISHERS BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY L. T. Meade (Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina Smith), English novelist, was born
at Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, 1854, the daughter of Rev. R. T. Meade,
rector at Novohal, County Cork, and married Toulmin Smith in 1879. She
wrote her first book, Lettie's Last Home , at the age of 17, and since
then has been an unusually prolific writer, her stories attaining wide
popularity on both sides of the Atlantic. She worked in the British Museum, lived in Bishopsgate Without, making
special studies of East London life, which she incorporated in her
stories. She edited the Atlanta , a magazine, for six years. Her
pictures of girls, especially in the influence they exert on their
elders, are drawn with intuitive fidelity, pathos, love, and humor, as in
Girls of the Forest , flowing easily from her pen. She has traveled
extensively, and is devoted to motoring and other outdoor sports. Among more than fifty novels she has written, dealing largely with
questions of home life, are: A Knight of To day (1877), Bel Marjory
(1878), Mou setse: a Negro Hero (1880), Mother Herring's Chickens
(1881), A London Baby: The Story of King Roy (1883), Two Sisters
(1884), The Angel of Life (1885), A World of Girls (1886), Sweet
Nancy (1887), Nobody's Neighbors (1887), Deb and The Duchess (1888),
Girls of the Forest (1908), Aylwyn's Friends (1909), Pretty Girl and
the Others (1910).
GIRLS OF THE FOREST. CHAPTER I. THE GUEST WHO WAS NEITHER OLD NOR YOUNG.
It was a beautiful summer's afternoon, and the girls were seated in a
circle on the lawn in front of the house. The house was an old
Elizabethan mansion, which had been added to from time to time fresh
additions jutting out here and running up there. There were all sorts of
unexpected nooks and corners to be found in the old house a flight of
stairs just where you did not look for any, and a baize door shutting
away the world at the moment when you expected to behold a long vista
into space. The house itself was most charming and inviting looking; but
it was also, beyond doubt, much neglected. The doors were nearly
destitute of paint, and the papers on many of the walls had completely
lost their original patterns. In many instances there were no papers,
only discolored walls, which at one time had been gay with paint and
rendered beautiful with pictures. The windows were destitute of curtains;
the carpets on the floors were reduced to holes and patches. The old
pictures in the picture gallery still remained, however, and looked down
on the young girls who flitted about there on rainy days with kindly, or
searching, or malevolent eyes as suited the characters of those men and
women who were portrayed in them. But this was the heart of summer, and there was no need to go into the
musty, fusty old house. The girls sat on the grass and held consultation. "She is certainly coming to morrow," said Verena. "Father had a letter
this morning. I heard him giving directions to old John to have the trap
patched up and the harness mended. And John is going to Lyndhurst Road to
meet her. She will arrive just about this time. Isn't it too awful?" "Never mind, Renny," said her second sister; "the sooner she comes, the
sooner she'll go. Briar and Patty and I have put our heads together, and
we mean to let her see what we think of her and her interfering ways... Continue reading book >>
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