Miss Primrose: A Novel

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Gilson Roy Rolfe. Miss Primrose: A Novel

PART I. A Devonshire Lad

I. LETITIA

II. LITTLE RUGBY

III. A POET OF GRASSY FORD

IV. THE SEVENTH SLICE

V. THE HANDMAIDEN

VI. COUSIN DOVE

VII. OF HAMADRYADS AND THEIR SPELLS

PART II. The School-Mistress

I. THE OLDER LETITIA

II. ON A CORNER SHELF

III. A YOUNGER ROBIN

IV. HIRAM PTOLEMY

V. A. P. A

VI. TRUANTS IN ARCADY

VII. PEGGY NEAL

VIII. NEW EDEN

IX. A SERIOUS MATTER

PART III. Rosemary

I. THE HOME-KEEPER

II. JOHNNY KEATS

III. THE FORTUNE-TELLER

IV. AN UNEXPECTED LETTER

V. SURPRISES

VI. AN OLD FRIEND OF OURS

VII. SUZANNE

VIII. IN A DEVON LANE

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All little, white-haired, smiling ladies remind me of Letitia – Letitia Primrose, whom you saw just now in a corner of our garden among the petunias. You thought her odd, no doubt, not knowing her as I or as the children do who find her dough-nuts sweet after school is done, or their English cousins, those little brown-feathered beggars waiting on winter mornings in the snow-drifts at her sill. As for myself, I must own to a certain kinship, as it were, not of blood but of propinquity, a long next-doorhood in our youth, a tenderer, nameless tie in after years, and always a fond partiality which began one day by our old green fence. There, on its Primrose side, it seems, she had parted the grape-vines, looking for fruit, and found instead —

"Why! whose little boy is this?"

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"Doubtless," said Dr. Primrose, "minus the a. d."

"I didn't know you had a middle name," I said.

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