A Plucky Girl
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Meade L. T.. A Plucky Girl
CHAPTER I. FORTUNE'S BALL
CHAPTER II. FRIENDS OR QUONDAM FRIENDS
CHAPTER III. MY SCHEME
CHAPTER IV. THE VERDICT
CHAPTER V. JANE MULLINS
CHAPTER VI. THE BERLIN WOOL ROOM
CHAPTER VII. THE PAYING GUESTS
CHAPTER VIII. THE FLOUR IN THE CAKE
CHAPTER IX. THE ARTIST'S EYE
CHAPTER X. HER GRACE OF WILMOT
CHAPTER XI. WHY DID HE DO IT?
CHAPTER XII. TWO EXTREMES
CHAPTER XIII. THE UGLY DRESS
CHAPTER XIV. ANXIETY
CHAPTER XV. DR. READE
CHAPTER XVI. GIVE ME YOUR PROMISE
CHAPTER XVII. A DASH OF ONIONS
CHAPTER XVIII. BUTTERED BREAD
CHAPTER XIX. YOU USED TO LOVE US
CHAPTER XX. RUINED
CHAPTER XXI. MR. PATTENS
CHAPTER XXII. THE MAN IN POSSESSION
CHAPTER XXIII. ALBERT
CHAPTER XXIV. THE BOND
CHAPTER XXV. YOU ARE A GOOD MAN
CHAPTER XXVI. HAND IN HAND
CHAPTER XXVII. TOO LATE
CHAPTER XXVIII. THIS DEAR GIRL BELONGS TO US
CHAPTER XXIX. HAVE I LOST YOU?
CHAPTER XXX. THE DUCHESS HAS HER SAY
CHAPTER XXXI. THE END CROWNS ALL
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Mother used to say that there were times when her daughter Westenra swept her right off her feet.
"I can no more resist you," she used to remark on these occasions, "than if you were a great flood bearing me along."
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"Meat and cream are not necessary to keep one alive," I replied; "but of course you have never known the sort of people who do without them. I should certainly be hand and glove with them if I went into the country, but in all probability in the boarding-house in Bloomsbury we shall be able to have good meals. Now I must really say good-bye. Try and remember sometimes that I am your god-daughter … and that mother loves you very much. Don't quite give us both up – that is, as far as your memory is concerned."
The Duchess bustled to her feet. "I can't make you out a bit," she said. "Your head has gone wrong, that is the long and short of it, but your mother will explain things. Stay to lunch with me, Westenra, and afterwards we will go and have a talk with your mother. I can either send her a telegram or a note."
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