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Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley. The Abbey Girls Again
The Abbey Girls Again
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. OFF TO THE PICTURES
CHAPTER II. THE MARY AND DOROTHY
CHAPTER III. THE FAIRY GODMOTHERS
CHAPTER IV. TROUBLE WITH BIDDY
CHAPTER V. MARY-DOROTHY HEARS THE PIPES OF PAN
CHAPTER VI. THE RETURN OF THE PRESIDENT
CHAPTER VII “OLD MARRIED LADIES”
CHAPTER VIII. THE FRIGHT OF HER LIFE
CHAPTER IX “A LARGE AND NOISY CROWD.”
CHAPTER X. THE PIXIE’S PARTY
CHAPTER XI. MARY-DOROTHY’S WAY
CHAPTER XII. DANCING FOR JENNY-WREN
CHAPTER XIII. MARY-DOROTHY’S GYM TUNIC
CHAPTER XIV “OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY”
CHAPTER XV. THE ABBEY AND THE HALL
CHAPTER XVI. MAKING BIDDY FEEL AT HOME
CHAPTER XVII. JOY DISAPPOINTS THE PRESIDENT
CHAPTER XVIII. THE HAMLET CLUB
CHAPTER XIX. MARY-DOROTHY’S CONFESSION
CHAPTER XX. JOY’S HEIRESS
CHAPTER XXI. THE POND NEXT DOOR
CHAPTER XXII. MAIDLIN’S PRIVATE SECRETARY
CHAPTER XXIII. HOLDING THE ROPE
CHAPTER XXIV. MARY-DOROTHY MAKES THE PLUNGE
CHAPTER XXV. MARY-DOROTHY’S PROMISE
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Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Mary heard her go. With tightened lips, she carried away the tea things and washed them up, and tidied the little sitting-room. Then, sitting on a footstool by the gas fire, she took up the manuscript Jen Robins had brought and glanced through it. There were strange place-names in it, and she looked at these carefully; the writing was not easy to read. She knit her brows at sight of some stories in what she afterwards found was broad Yorkshire dialect, and studied these paragraphs closely. That was all she could do till the “further instructions” arrived. She put the papers away carefully, and took up a basket of mending.
Then she flung the stockings on to the table, and dropped again on her stool before the fire. All this, even the study of the manuscript, was shirking, holding at bay the thoughts which cried aloud for attention. Mary was an adept at this kind of putting-off, though she had hardly realised it; she could always thrust difficult problems into the background and keep them there. But to-night, for a little while, they mastered her. She clasped her hands tensely round her knees and stared unhappily into the fire.
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