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Polly A New-Fashioned Girl By: L. T. Meade (1854-1914) |
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BY
L. T. MEADE Author of "A World of Girls," "Daddy's Girl,"
"Light of the Morning," "Palace Beautiful,"
"A Girl in Ten Thousand," etc. NEW YORK
THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY
1910 [Illustration: Polly] "But if thou wilt be constant then,
And faithful of thy word,
I'll make thee glorious by my pen
And famous by my sword.
I'll serve thee in such noble ways
Was never heard before:
I'll crown and deck thee all with bays
And love thee evermore." James Graham. CONTENTS PART I
CHAPTER I. A GREAT MISFORTUNE. 1
CHAPTER II. ALL ABOUT THE FAMILY. 4
CHAPTER III. "BE BRAVE, DEAR." 6
CHAPTER IV. QUITE A NEW SORT OF SCHEME. 10
CHAPTER V. A SAFETY VALVE. 13
CHAPTER VI. POLLY'S RAID. 16
CHAPTER VII. THE GROWN UPS. 19
CHAPTER VIII. SHOULD THE STRANGERS COME? 24
CHAPTER IX. LIMITS. 28
CHAPTER X. INDIGESTION WEEK. 32
CHAPTER XI. A WAS AN APPLE PIE. 36
CHAPTER XII. POTATOES MINUS POINT. 42
CHAPTER XIII. IN THE ATTIC. 45
CHAPTER XIV. AUNT MARIA. 50
CHAPTER XV. PUNISHMENT. 55
CHAPTER XVI. DR. MAYBRIGHT versus SCORPION. 60
CHAPTER XVII. WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN? 64
CHAPTER XVIII. THE WIFE OF MICAH JONES. 68
CHAPTER XIX. DISTRESSED HEROINES. 73
CHAPTER XX. LIMITS. 75
CHAPTER XXI. THE HIGH MOUNTAINS. 78 PART II
CHAPTER I. A COUPLE OF BARBARIANS. 82
CHAPTER II. A YOUNG QUEEN. 86
CHAPTER III. NOT LIKE OTHERS. 94
CHAPTER IV. A YOUNG AUSTRALIAN. 98
CHAPTER V. FORSAKEN. 103
CHAPTER VI. WITHOUT HER TREASURE. 108
CHAPTER VII. MAGGIE TO THE RESCUE. 113
CHAPTER VIII. THE HERMIT'S HUT. 117
CHAPTER IX. AN OLD SONG. 121
CHAPTER X. LOOKING AT HERSELF. 126
CHAPTER XI. THE WORTH OF A DIAMOND. 131
CHAPTER XII. RELICS AND A WELCOME. 135
CHAPTER XIII. VERY ROUGH WEATHER. 139
CHAPTER XIV. A NOVEL HIDING PLACE. 144
CHAPTER XV. A DILEMMA. 149
CHAPTER XVI. FIREFLY. 151
CHAPTER XVII. TO THE RESCUE. 155
CHAPTER XVIII. OH, FIE! POLLY. 159
CHAPTER XIX. ONE YEAR AFTER. 165
POLLY:
A NEW FASHIONED GIRL. CHAPTER I. A GREAT MISFORTUNE.
It was an intensely hot July day not a cloud appeared in the high blue
vault of the sky; the trees, the flowers, the grasses, were all
motionless, for not even the gentlest zephyr of a breeze was abroad; the
whole world seemed lapped in a sort of drowsy, hot, languorous slumber.
Even the flowers bowed their heads a little weariedly, and the birds
after a time ceased singing, and got into the coolest and most shady
parts of the great forest trees. There they sat and talked to one
another of the glorious weather, for they liked the heat, although it
made them too lazy to sing. It was an open plain of country, and although there were clumps of trees
here and there, great clumps with cool shade under them, there were also
acres and acres of common land on which the sun beat remorselessly. This
land was covered with heather, not yet in flower, and with bracken,
which was already putting on its autumn glory of yellow and red. Neither
the bracken nor the heather minded the July heat, but the butterflies
thought it a trifle uncomfortable, and made for the clumps of trees, and
looked longingly and regretfully at what had been a noisy, babbling
little brook, but was now a dry and stony channel, deserted even by the
dragon flies... Continue reading book >>
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