Carolina Lee

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Lilian Bell. Carolina Lee

CHAPTER I. CAPTAIN WINCHESTER LEE

CHAPTER II. THE FIRST GRIEF

CHAPTER III. THE DANGER OF WISHING

CHAPTER IV. THE TURN OF THE WHEEL

CHAPTER V. BROTHER AND SISTER

CHAPTER VI. THE STRANGER

CHAPTER VII. MORTAL MIND

CHAPTER VIII. MAN'S EXTREMITY

CHAPTER IX. THE TRIAL OF FAITH

CHAPTER X. CROSS PURPOSES

CHAPTER XI. IN WHICH TRUTH HOLDS HER OWN

CHAPTER XII. WHITEHALL

CHAPTER XIII. GUILDFORD

CHAPTER XIV. KINFOLK

CHAPTER XV. THE BLIND BABY

CHAPTER XVI. A LETTER FROM CAROLINA

CHAPTER XVII. IN THE BARNWELLS' CARRYALL

CHAPTER XVIII. A LETTER FROM KATE

CHAPTER XIX. THE FEAR

CHAPTER XX. MOULTRIE

CHAPTER XXI. THE LIGHT BREAKS

CHAPTER XXII. IN THE VOODOO'S CAVE

CHAPTER XXIII. LOOSE THREADS

CHAPTER XXIV. THE HOUSE-PARTY ARRIVES

CHAPTER XXV. BOB FITZHUGH

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Then, with no illness to prepare her for so awful a blow, with nothing but a stopping of the heart-beats, Carolina's father fell into his last, long sleep, and before she could fairly realize her loss, her mother followed him.

Within six weeks, the girl found herself orphaned and mistress of the great Lee fortune, but utterly alone in the world, for her grandfather had died the year previous and Sherman had just married and gone back to America.

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"Carolina," she would say, "come and look up Zurich on the map for me; I can't see without my gloves."

In her hours of greatest depression this trait never failed to amuse Carolina, and when, on one occasion, Cousin Lois took the tissue-paper from around a new bonnet, folded the paper carefully and put it in the hat-box and threw the bonnet in the waste-basket, Carolina laughed herself into hysterics.

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