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L. T. Meade. The Daughter of a Soldier: A Colleen of South Ireland
The Daughter of a Soldier: A Colleen of South Ireland
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. PERIWINKLES
CHAPTER II. EAVESDROPPING
CHAPTER III. KINGSALA BY THE SEA
CHAPTER IV. THE O'SHEE
CHAPTER V. THE MAJOR AND HIS CHILD
CHAPTER VI. COLONEL HERBERT TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER VII. HAPPINESS
CHAPTER VIII. SUMMER WITH AN EAST WIND
CHAPTER IX. STEP-DAUGHTERS
CHAPTER X. AT TEMPLEMORE
CHAPTER XI. THE GRAND BLÜTHNER
CHAPTER XII. POPSY-DAD
CHAPTER XIII. FLY-AWAY
CHAPTER XIV. FELICITY
CHAPTER XV. MISS PINCHIN
CHAPTER XVI. THE POWER OF HATRED
CHAPTER XVII. THE HOME OF SILENCE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PEAK OF DESOLATION WHERE GOD WAS
CHAPTER XIX. THE LOVE THAT PASSETH KNOWLEDGE
CHAPTER XX. A FAILURE
CHAPTER XXI. THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE SCHOOL
CHAPTER XXII. THE WHITE ANGEL
CHAPTER XXIII. THE WOUNDED HAND AND ARM
CHAPTER XXIV. WHITE FLOWERS AND FORGIVENESS FOREVERMORE
CHAPTER XXV. FUZZY-WUZZY
CHAPTER XXVI. THE LESSON NOT YET LEARNED
CHAPTER XXVII. THE LEARNING OF LIFE'S LESSON
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L. T. Meade
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Meanwhile Maureen herself was in her element. She might cry afterwards, but she was certainly not going to cry now. She was a very young little girl, but she had in many ways far more self-control than her older cousin, and her only object now was to comfort and cheer Uncle Pat.
"You mustn't sit out long, you know, Uncle Pat," she began, "but I'm sure we can have half an hour. Suppose we talk of the very pleasantest things. You begin, Uncle Pat. Tell me some of the very beautiful things you preach about when you talk to us about the City of Gold; and may I lay my head, very lightly—just there—on your dear shoulder. I won't tire you; I really won't. Are the gates really of pearl in your City and the streets of gold?"
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