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Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls By: Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1850-1943) |
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THE HILDEGARDE MARGARET SERIES By Laura E. Richards Each large 12mo, cloth decorative, illustrated, per volume, $1.75 Queen Hildegarde
Hildegarde's Holiday
Hildegarde's Home
Hildegarde's Neighbors
Hildegarde's Harvest
Three Margarets
Margaret Montfort
Peggy
Rita
Fernley House
The Merryweathers The above eleven volumes boxed as a set, $19.25 L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
[Illustration: "'DO TELL US ABOUT HER, PLEASE!'"]
THE HILDEGARDE SERIES Hildegarde's Holiday A STORY FOR GIRLS BY LAURA E. RICHARDS Author of "The Margaret Series," "The Hildegarde Series,"
"Captain January," "Melody," "Five
Minute Stories," etc. ILLUSTRATED [Illustration] THE PAGE COMPANY BOSTON PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1891
BY ESTES AND LAURIAT Made in U. S. A. Twenty fourth Impression, May, 1927
Twenty fifth Impression, January, 1930 THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.
To H. R.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY 11 II. MISS WEALTHY 20 III. THE ORCHARD 34 IV. THE DOCTORS 53 V. ON THE RIVER 74 VI. A MORNING DRIVE 94 VII. A "STORY EVENING" 126 VIII. FLOWER DAY 151 IX. BROKEN FLOWERS 178 X. THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD 201 XI. "UP IN THE MORNING EARLY" 222 XII. BENNY 241 XIII. A SURPRISE 254 XIV. TELEMACHUS GOES A FISHING 278 XV. THE GREAT SCHEME 300 XVI. THE WIDOW BRETT 314 XVII. OLD MR. COLT 337 XVIII. JOYOUS GARD 354
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE
"'DO TELL US ABOUT HER, PLEASE!'" (p. 128) Frontispiece
"'AND EVERYTHING IS RIGHT FOR SUPPER, MARTHA?'" 23
"'DO SAY IT'S ALL RIGHT, JEREMIAH!'" 77
"THEN THEY HUGGED EACH OTHER A LITTLE" 111
"'DON'T YOU THINK WE HAVE ENOUGH FLOWERS, ROSY?'" 174
"SO DOWN PLUMPED HILDEGARDE" 194
"'OH, SUCH A DEE OLE KITTY!'" 247
"'NOT A THING IN THE HOUSE!'" 333
HILDEGARDE'S HOLIDAY.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
In a small waiting room at Blank Hospital a girl was walking up and
down, with quick, impatient steps. Every few minutes she stopped to
listen; then, hearing no sound, she resumed her walk, with hands clasped
and lips set firmly together. She was evidently in a state of high
nervous excitement, for the pupils of her eyes were so dilated that they
flashed black as night instead of gray; and a bright red spot burned in
either cheek. In the corner, in an attitude of anxious dejection, sat a
small dog. He had tried following his mistress at first, when she began
her walk, and finding that the promenade took them nowhere and was very
monotonous, had tried to vary the monotony by worrying her heels in a
playful manner; whereupon he had been severely reprimanded, and sent
into the corner, from which he dared not emerge. He was trying, with his
usual lack of success, to fathom the motives which prompted human beings
to such strange and undoglike actions, when suddenly a door opened, and
a lady and gentleman came in. The girl sprang forward. "Mamma!" she
cried. "Doctor!" "It is all right, my dear," said the doctor, quickly; while the lady,
whose name was Mrs. Grahame, took the girl in her arms quietly, and
kissed her. "It is all right; everything has gone perfectly, and in a
few days your lovely friend will be better than she has ever been since
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