Mamie's Watchword

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Mathews Joanna Hooe. Mamie's Watchword

I. THE DOLL

II. HOW BELLE DID IT

III. THE BREAKWATER

IV. FORBIDDEN PLEASURES

V. THE DUCKLING

VI. POOR LITTLE WAGTAIL

VII. THE "FIRST STEP."

VIII. DISOBEDIENCE

IX. ADRIFT

X. RESCUED

XI. REPENTANCE

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"Why, yes, Mamie! Is that you?"

These very unnecessary questions were put by the two little schoolmates as they stood facing one another within the saloon of the drawing-room car attached to the train which was on its way to Boston.

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Still she did honestly wish to do better; but she did not seem to know the right way to set about this; perhaps she had not a good motive; perhaps it was from the desire to have people say what a good girl she had become; how much she had improved; to receive such praise as she often heard bestowed upon some of her young companions, – Belle for instance.

"A kind, unselfish little girl," her father had called Belle; and Mamie would have been very much pleased to hear papa say that to her; but he never did, – and why? Because she never deserved it. Mamie felt that, although it did vex her that it was so. And she would really like to deserve it, she thought.

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