Girls of the True Blue
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Meade L. T.. Girls of the True Blue
CHAPTER I. – “I PROMISE.”
CHAPTER II. – “I WON’T EVER GO TO YOU.”
CHAPTER III. – THE FROCK WITH CRAPE
CHAPTER IV. – THE BEST GIRL
CHAPTER V. – THE MYSTERY-GIRL
CHAPTER VI. – THE BULL-PUP
CHAPTER VII. – THE FALL
CHAPTER VIII. – PIP
CHAPTER IX. – UNDER HER THUMB
CHAPTER X. – A MYSTERY
CHAPTER XI. – THE MIDDLE WAY
CHAPTER XII – “I SHALL STAY FOR A YEAR.”
CHAPTER XIII – UNCLE PETER
CHAPTER XIV. – “IT WAS NOT WORTH WHILE.”
CHAPTER XV. – SOLDIERS OF THE TRUE BLUE
CHAPTER XVI. – TIGHTENING HER CHAIN
CHAPTER XVII. – AUGUSTA’S RESOLVE
CHAPTER XVIII. – AUGUSTA’S SIGNATURE
CHAPTER XIX. – THE ASPRAYS
CHAPTER XX. – THE ORDERLY-BOOK
CHAPTER XXI. – THE PICNIC
CHAPTER XXII. – THE BROKEN LOCK
CHAPTER XXIII. – “PRIZE-DAY COMES IN A MONTH.”
CHAPTER XXIV. – THE GIPSY TEA
CHAPTER XXV. – THE PACKET OF LETTERS
CHAPTER XXVI. – SUNBEAM
CHAPTER XXVII. – “WAS THAT THE REASON?”
CHAPTER XXVIII. – “IS WRONG RIGHT?”
CHAPTER XXIX. – DOWN BY THE WISTARIA
CHAPTER XXX. – AUGUSTA IS FRIGHTENED
CHAPTER XXXI. – UNCLE PETER’S CONSIDERING CAP
CHAPTER XXXII. – THE BEGINNING OF THE SHADOW
CHAPTER XXXIII. – THE CROSS
CHAPTER XXXIV. – THE LETTER
CHAPTER XXXV. – THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSORS IS HARD
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But she only went as far as the landing; there she crouched down in a corner and waited. She did not know what she feared, nor exactly what was going to happen; it seemed to her that there was a great darkness everywhere, and that it pressed her round and shut away the light.
The outward circumstances of Nan Esterleigh’s life had never been too bright, but all the same she had been a happy little girl; she had been petted and fussed about and loved, and her battered doll, Sophia Maria, had been the greatest imaginable comfort to her. She was quite accustomed to scanty meals and poor rooms and cross landladies. She was, alas! too, poor little girl, thoroughly accustomed to her mother’s state of miserable health. Mother had been often as bad before. Ever since Nan could remember, her mother had ached and shivered and moaned with pain; she had spent restless nights, and had stayed in bed to breakfast, and had struggled against the illness which crept on her more and more day by day. Nan in her heart of hearts supposed that very few people were well; she thought children enjoyed good health as a rule, and that grown people had illness. It was the law of life, she supposed. Now and then she confided her thoughts to Sophia Maria.
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“And Sophia Maria would wear crape and a black dress too?”
“Yes, miss.”
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