True Stories of Girl Heroines

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Everett-Green Evelyn. True Stories of Girl Heroines

INEZ ARROYA

CATHARINE THE ROSE

ELSJE VAN HOUWENING

GRIZEL COCHRANE

EVA VON GROSS

EMMA FITZ-OSBORN

ELIZABETH STUART

CHARLOTTE HONEYMAN

MARY BRIDGES

THERESA DUROC

JANE LANE

HELEN KOTTENNER

MAID LILLYARD

MARGARET WILSON

AGOSTINA OF ZARAGOZA

AGNES BEAUMONT

HANNAH HEWLING

MONA DRUMMOND

JESSY VARCOE

URSULA PENDRILL

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He held her hands and looked steadfastly into her eyes.

"You would not hold me back, Kate?"

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So the work progressed rapidly, though many a brave young life paid forfeit, and the tears would well up sometimes in Kate's eyes, as she saw a comrade carried off dead, or bent over a dying girl, to hear her last brave message for home and friends; or, when in the silence of the night, she thought upon these things, and cried in her heart, "How long, O Lord, how long?"

But there was never a quiver of fear in her face or in her heart as she stood to her post day by day; and the walls grew, and the Commandant of the garrison came and gave warm praise and thanks, and timely cautions and instructions to the heroic girls who toiled through the hot summer days without one selfish thought of fear.

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