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Gertrude Page. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing
Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing
Table of Contents
Chapter Two
The Misses O’Hara
Chapter Three
Eileen the Dreamer
Chapter Four
Paddy’s Adventure
Chapter Five
Ted Masterman
Chapter Six
Lawrence Blake
Chapter Seven
Lawrence Finds Eileen on the Shingles
Chapter Eight
Paddy’s Pigs
Chapter Nine
Concerning a Supper-Dance
Chapter Ten
A Letter from Calcutta
Chapter Eleven
The Scrimmage Party
Chapter Twelve
The Ball
Chapter Thirteen
Paddy’s Views on Sentimentality
Chapter Fourteen
The Conservatory and the Den
Chapter Fifteen
Dread and Wrath
Chapter Sixteen
The First Awakening
Chapter Seventeen
Brooding Clouds
Chapter Eighteen
The Angel of Death
Chapter Nineteen
In Which the Worst Came
Chapter Twenty
Explanations
Chapter Twenty One
Two Love Stories
Chapter Twenty Two
Good-Bye
Chapter Twenty Three
Gwendoline Carew
Chapter Twenty Four
Lawrence Hears Some News
Chapter Twenty Five
A Curious Engagement
Chapter Twenty Six
Paddy Makes Her Cousin’s Acquaintance
Chapter Twenty Seven
Paddy has a Visitor
Chapter Twenty Eight
The New Home
Chapter Twenty Nine
A Strange Coincidence
Chapter Thirty
An Encounter
Chapter Thirty One
Paddy Makes a New Friend
Chapter Thirty Two
Paddy Learns Her Mistake
Chapter Thirty Three
Patricia the Great
Chapter Thirty Four
Robert Morony on Church Restoration
Chapter Thirty Five
The Picnic
Chapter Thirty Six
The Rescue
Chapter Thirty Seven
“Stay here with me.”
Chapter Thirty Eight
Gwen’s Views on Matrimony
Chapter Thirty Nine
A Christmas Surprise
Chapter Forty
A Budget of News
Chapter Forty One
In Lawrence’s Den
Chapter Forty Two
“What would an Irish Fusilier do?”
Chapter Forty Three
A Man’s Pain
Chapter Forty Four
“I Cannot Come.”
Chapter Forty Five
The Invalid
Chapter Forty Six
The Solution
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Gertrude Page
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Eileen remained silent. The news had taken her by surprise, as she had not expected them for a week or two, and she felt her pulses throbbing oddly.
Then an unaccountable presentiment that Lawrence was somewhere near took possession of her, and, making some excuse about feeling cold, she got up to follow Paddy and Ted Masterman along the front. Jack, wishing very much to remain as they were, was obliged to get up also, and they walked briskly in the direction of Rostrevor.
