Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief
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Meade L. T.. Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief
CHAPTER I. THE CHILDREN OF THE UPPER GLEN
CHAPTER II. AUNT AGNES DELACOUR
CHAPTER III. AUNT AGNES'S WAY
CHAPTER IV. THE PALACE OF THE KINGS
CHAPTER V. THE EARLY BIRD
CHAPTER VI. THE HEAD-MISTRESS
CHAPTER VII. THE OPENING OF THE GREAT SCHOOL
CHAPTER VIII. HOLLYHOCK LEFT IN THE COLD
CHAPTER IX. THE WOMAN WHO INTERFERED
CHAPTER X. A MISERABLE GIRL
CHAPTER XI. SOFT AND LOW
CHAPTER XII. UNDER PROTEST
CHAPTER XIII. THE SUMMER PARLOUR
CHAPTER XIV. THE FIRE THAT WILL NOT LIGHT
CHAPTER XV. CREAM
CHAPTER XVI. THE GIRL WITH THE WAYWARD HEART
CHAPTER XVII. THE GREAT CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER XVIII. LEUCHA'S TERROR
CHAPTER XIX. JASMINE'S RESOLVE
CHAPTER XX. MEG'S CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER XXI. THERE IS NO WAY OUT
CHAPTER XXII. THE END OF LOVE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE GREAT CHARADE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WARM HEART ROUSED AT LAST
CHAPTER XXV. THE FIRE SPIRITS
CHAPTER XXVI. HOLLYHOCK'S DEED OF VALOUR
CHAPTER XXVII. ARDSHIEL TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XXVIII. WHAT LOVE CAN DO
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Miss Delacour was an elderly woman with somewhat coarse gray hair. She was not old, but elderly. She had a very broad figure, plump and well-proportioned. Miss Delacour thought little about so trivial a thing as fashion, or mere dress in any shape or form. She was fond of saying that she was as the Almighty made her, and that clothes were nothing but a snare of the flesh.
Agnes Delacour was exceedingly well off, but she lived in a very small house in Chelsea, and gave of her abundance to those whom she called 'the Lord's poor.' Her charities were many and wide-spread, and on that account she was highly esteemed by numbers of people, either very poor or struggling, in that upper class which needs help so much, and gets it so little. To these people Agnes Delacour gave freely, saving many young people from utter ruin by her timely aid, and drawing down on her devoted head the blessings of their fathers and mothers, who spoke of her as one of the Lord's saints. Nevertheless those who knew Miss Delacour really well did not love her. She was too cold, too masterful, for their taste, and these folks would rather live in great difficulties than accept her bounty.
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'Jasper says I am exceedingly handsome,' replied Lucy.
'Oh, that awful boy! What a man your father must be to allow such talk!'
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