A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia
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Douglas Amanda M.. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia
TO MR. AND MRS. HENRY HORTON LAWRENCE
CHAPTER I. HERE AND THERE
CHAPTER II. BESSY WARDOUR
CHAPTER III. IN A NEW WORLD
CHAPTER IV. OF MANY THINGS
CHAPTER V. A BOULEVERSEMENT
CHAPTER VI. TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER VII. AT SOME CROSSROADS
CHAPTER VIII. A LITTLE REBEL
CHAPTER IX. FATE TO THE FORE
CHAPTER X. TO TURN AND FIGHT
CHAPTER XI. A RIFT OF SUSPICION
CHAPTER XII. TRUE TO HER COLORS
CHAPTER XIII. UNDER THE ROSE
CHAPTER XIV. FOR NATIVE LAND AND LOYALTY
CHAPTER XV. PARTING
CHAPTER XVI. LOVE AND TRUE LOVE
CHAPTER XVII. MID WAR'S ALARMS
CHAPTER XVIII. WHOM SHALL SHE PITY?
CHAPTER XIX. THE MIDNIGHT TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY
CHAPTER XX. WHEN THE WORLD WENT WELL
CHAPTER XXI. AN APRIL GIRL
CHAPTER XXII. POLLY AND PHIL
CHAPTER XXIII. PRIMROSE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE OLD AND THE NEW
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She was swinging her gingham sunbonnet, faded beyond any recognition of its pristine coloring, her small hand keeping tight hold of the strings. At every revolution it went swifter and swifter until it seemed a grayish sort of wheel whirling in the late sunshine that sent long shadows among the trees. When she let it go it flew like a great bird, while she laughed sweet, merry childish notes that would have stirred almost any soul. A slim, lithe little maid with a great crop of yellow hair, cut short in the neck, and as we should say now, banged across the forehead. But it was a mass of frowzy curls that seemed full of sunshine.
With two or three quick leaps she captured it again and was just preparing for her next swirl.
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"Come to the table," said Aunt Lois.
The four heads were bowed reverently. There was not much talking at meal time. Aunt Lois was ever afraid of idle words and vain babbling. Uncle James had a good, hearty appetite, as became his size and strength, and generally occupied himself in ministering to it. Children in Quaker households – indeed, in nearly all others – had the wise old adage dinned into their ears that they were to be seen and not heard, and they also understood that they were to be seen as little as possible.
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