Greenacre Girls

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Forrester Izola Louise. Greenacre Girls

CHAPTER I. THE FINGER OF PROVIDENCE

CHAPTER II. THE MOTHERBIRD AND HER ROBINS

CHAPTER III. BREAKERS AHEAD

CHAPTER IV. THE QUEEN'S PRIVY COUNCIL

CHAPTER V. KIT REBELS

CHAPTER VI. WHITE HYACINTHS

CHAPTER VII. THE LAND O' REST

CHAPTER VIII. SPYING THE PROMISED LAND

CHAPTER IX. THE LADY MANAGERS CHOOSE A NAME

CHAPTER X. SETTLING THE NEST

CHAPTER XI. MA PARMELEE'S CHICKS

CHAPTER XII. GILEAD'S GIRL NEIGHBORS

CHAPTER XIII. COUSIN ROXY TO THE RESCUE

CHAPTER XIV. THE LAWN FÊTE

CHAPTER XV. KIT PULLS ANCHOR

CHAPTER XVI. GUESTS AND GHOSTS

CHAPTER XVII. BILLIE MEETS TRESPASSERS

CHAPTER XVIII. HARVESTING HOPES

CHAPTER XIX. RALPH AND HONEY TAKE THE LONG TRAIL

CHAPTER XX. ROXANA'S ROMANCE

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The next three days were ones of anxious waiting. All plans for the Valentine party had been abandoned, and after school hours the girls hung around Cousin Roxana feeling that she alone could help them bear the suspense. Jean occasionally stole away to her mother's room and looked around to be sure that everything was as she liked it best, and when she came out into the wide upper hall she usually met Kit and Doris stealing from their father's room, their eyes red from weeping.

Helen hunted the cosy corners and curled herself up like a forlorn kitten. Kit declared there wasn't a dry sofa cushion in the house.

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Helen sped up after Cousin Roxana, and presently she came bustling downstairs, flushed and efficient.

"Why, Elizabeth Ann," she cried, smoothing back her hair just as if she had been one of the girls. "Don't give way just when your strength should be tried and true."

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