A Bunch of Cherries: A Story of Cherry Court School
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Meade L. T.. A Bunch of Cherries: A Story of Cherry Court School
CHAPTER I. THE SCHOOL
CHAPTER II. THE GIRLS
CHAPTER III. THE TELEGRAM
CHAPTER IV. SIR JOHN'S GREAT SCHEME
CHAPTER V. FLORENCE
CHAPTER VI. KITTY AND HER FATHER
CHAPTER VII. CHERRY-COLORED RIBBONS
CHAPTER VIII. THE LETTER
CHAPTER IX. THE LITTLE MUMMY
CHAPTER X. AUNT SUSAN
CHAPTER XI "I ALWAYS ADMIRED FRANKNESS."
CHAPTER XII. THE FAIRY BOX
CHAPTER XIII. AN INVITATION
CHAPTER XIV. AT THE PARK
CHAPTER XV. THE PUPIL TEACHER
CHAPTER XVI. TEMPTATION
CHAPTER XVII. THE FALL
CHAPTER XVIII. THE GUESTS ARRIVE
CHAPTER SIX. TIT FOR TAT
CHAPTER XX "THE HILLS FOR EVER."
CHAPTER XXI. THE STING OF THE SERPENT
CHAPTER XXII. THE VOICE OF GOD
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It was a lovely day in the beginning of June, and, being Wednesday, was a half-holiday. The girls of the Upper school, numbering seven in all, were assembled in the cherry garden. The cherry garden stood a little apart, to the left of the great general garden, and was entered by a low walled-in door.
Mrs. Clavering was so proud of her cherries and so afraid that the neighbors might be tempted to help themselves to the luscious fruit, that she kept the door locked between the cherry garden and the other, and only those girls who were very privileged were allowed to sit in it. But the girls in the Upper school were, of course, privileged, and they were now enjoying a fine time seated on the grass, or on little camp-stools and chairs, under the trees, which were already laden with the tempting fruit.
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"Well, dear, I hope you will prove it, for I fear, I greatly fear, that you are about to have a bad time."
"Oh, I am having a bad time," said Kitty; "don't you suppose that I am not suffering. I am suffering horribly, but I won't let anybody know – that is, if I can help it. I am not going to damp the pleasure of the others; you know that father is going, and I am his only child. He is coming just once to say good-bye to me; yes, he promises me that even in the telegram. He will come in about a fortnight from now, just a week before the Cherry Feast. Oh, I am miserable, I am miserable!"
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