Johnston Annie Fellows. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School
CHAPTER I. OFF TO BOARDING-SCHOOL
CHAPTER II. A NEW FRIEND
CHAPTER III. IDA'S SECRET
CHAPTER IV. THE SHADOW CLUB
CHAPTER V. AT THE BEECHES
CHAPTER VI. UNINVITED GUESTS
CHAPTER VII. THE HALLOWE'EN MASQUERADE
CHAPTER VIII. THE PRINCESS OF THE PENDULUM
CHAPTER IX. ONE RAINY AFTERNOON
CHAPTER X. A PLOT
CHAPTER XI. A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
CHAPTER XII. GHOST OR GIRL
CHAPTER XIII. THE SHADOW CLUB IN DISGRACE
CHAPTER XIV. THE THREE WEAVERS
CHAPTER XV. THANKSGIVING DAY
CHAPTER XVI. CHRISTMAS GREENS AND WATCH-NIGHT EMBERS
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Lloydsboro Seminary was not an especially attractive place viewed from the outside of the high picket fence, which surrounded its entire domain. The fence itself was forbidding. Its tall pickets, sharp-pointed and close together, seemed to suggest that strict rules were to be found inside; rules like the pickets, too firm and pointed to be easily broken through or climbed over.
The building was old and weather-beaten, but in its prime the school had been one of the best in the State, and many a woman remembered it loyally in after years when she had daughters of her own to educate. So it happened that some of the pupils came long distances, and from many parts of the country, to sit at the same old desks their mothers sat at, to study the same old lessons, and to learn to love every rock and tree on the seminary grounds, because of their associations with all the warm young friendships formed there.
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"Oh, no, indeed!" answered Ida, in her slow, sweet voice. The dimple which had charmed Janie flashed into sight. "This is the fourth boarding-school I have been sent to. I am used to going to new places."
"The fo'th!" exclaimed Lloyd, with surprised emphasis. A curious "Why?" almost slipped off her tongue, but she stopped it politely in the middle, and managed to stammer instead, as she salted her soup, "Wh-what fun you must have had!"
