Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work

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Baum Lyman Frank. Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work

CHAPTER I. MISS DOYLE INTERFERES

CHAPTER II. THE ARTIST

CHAPTER III. DON QUIXOTE

CHAPTER IV. KENNETH TAKES A BOLD STEP

CHAPTER V. PLANNING THE WORK

CHAPTER VI. A GOOD START

CHAPTER VII. PATSY MAKES PROGRESS

CHAPTER VIII. THE HONORABLE ERASTUS IS ASTONISHED

CHAPTER IX. OL' WILL ROGERS

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE

CHAPTER XII. BETH MEETS A REBUFF

CHAPTER XIII. THE BOOMERANG

CHAPTER XIV. LUCY'S GHOST

CHAPTER XV. SIGNS OF THE TIMES

CHAPTER XVI. A CLEW AT LAST

CHAPTER XVII. MRS. HOPKINS GOSSIPS

CHAPTER XVIII. ELIZA PARSONS

CHAPTER XIX. PATSY INDULGES IN EAVESDROPPING

CHAPTER XX. PRICKING A BUBBLE

CHAPTER XXI. THE "RETURNS" FROM FAIRVIEW

CHAPTER XXII. THE AWAKENING

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To most people the great rambling mansion at Elmhurst, with its ample grounds and profusion of flowers and shrubbery, would afford endless delight. But Kenneth Forbes, the youthful proprietor, was at times dreadfully bored by the loneliness of it all, though no one could better have appreciated the beauties of his fine estate.

The town, an insignificant village, was five miles distant, and surrounding the mansion were many broad acres which rather isolated it from its neighbors. Moreover, Elmhurst was the one important estate in the county, and the simple, hard-working farmers in its vicinity considered, justly enough, that the owner was wholly out of their class.

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If the young man at Elmhurst would like to be of public service he might find some better way to do so than by advancing such crazy ideas. But this, continued the Representative, was a subject of small importance. What he wished especially to call their attention to was the fact that he had served the district faithfully as Representative, and deserved their suffrages for renomination. And then he began to discuss political questions in general and his own merits in particular, so that Kenneth and Mr. Watson, disgusted at the way in which the Honorable Erastus had captured the meeting, left the school-house and indignantly returned to Elmhurst.

"This man Hopkins," said Mr. Watson, angrily, "is not a gentleman. He's an impertinent meddler."

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