A Princess in Calico

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Black Edith Ferguson. A Princess in Calico

Chapter I. Sleepy Hollow

Chapter II. A Ten-Dollar Bill

Chapter III. Fairyland

Chapter IV. A New World

Chapter V. Pauline’s Birthright

Chapter VI. Giving Oneself

Chapter VII. A Great Surrender

Chapter VIII. Idealising the Real

Chapter IX. A Lost Letter

Chapter X. The Angel of Patience

Chapter XI. Pure Gold

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‘I suppose you’ll be wanting some finery, little girl,’ said Mr Harding the next morning as he pushed away his chair from the breakfast table. ‘Dress is the first consideration, isn’t it, with women?’

‘I don’t know about the finery, father,’ and Pauline laughed a little. ‘I expect I shall be satisfied with the essentials.’

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‘A frilled peacock, with a ten-dollar outfit!’

She began the interminable pinafores. The sun swept up the horizon and laughed at her so broadly through the open window that her cheeks grew flushed and uncomfortable.

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