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Ethel Talbot. The Bravest Girl in the School
The Bravest Girl in the School
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. A SECRET
CHAPTER II. GOING TO SCHOOL
CHAPTER III. NEW ARRIVALS
CHAPTER IV. SCRAMBLED EGGS
CHAPTER V. RULES
CHAPTER VI. THE HOPE-SCOTT PRIZE
CHAPTER VII. HERMITS AND HORSES
CHAPTER VIII. PLANS FOR BEING BRAVE
CHAPTER IX. MAINLY ABOUT HOCKEY
CHAPTER X. A HOLIDAY ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XI. TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XII. THE HOUSE ON THE CLIFF
CHAPTER XIII. A REBELLIOUS PLAN
CHAPTER XIV. THE HOCKEY MATCH
CHAPTER XV. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER XVI. SYBIL RETURNS
CHAPTER XVII. THE “LITTLE HOUSE”
CHAPTER XVIII. MARGOT’S STORY
CHAPTER XIX. NEWS FOR GRETTA
CHAPTER XX. GRETTA AT HOME
CHAPTER XXI. THE HOPE-SCOTT SHIELD
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Ethel Talbot
Published by Good Press, 2021
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She was taller than Sybil, whose senior she was by six months, and weedier. Her mouse-coloured hair was thick and rather short, cut straight across her forehead and tucked away behind her ears; her grey eyes looked out very straight and clear at the world from under dark eye-lashes, and her mouth was a good-humoured and a capable one. Add to this a determined, rather self-willed little chin, and you have a fairly good picture of the Australian cousin, to the making of whose acquaintance the children had been so greatly looking forward.
Both of them fell in love with her at once in their own respective ways. Sybil, talking sixteen to the dozen in no time, asking questions that needed no answers, making comments, and compelling attention; and Gretta, content to sit and watch and listen, making up her mind, nevertheless, very firmly the while.
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