Three Girls from School
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Meade L. T.. Three Girls from School
Chapter One. Letters
Chapter Two. The Temptation
Chapter Three. To Catch at a Straw
Chapter Four “I don’t want to do Wrong.”
Chapter Five. Annie’s Scheme
Chapter Six. Mrs Priestley
Chapter Seven. The Poet
Chapter Eight. A Touch of the Sun
Chapter Nine. The Rector
Chapter Ten. The Illness
Chapter Eleven. The Letter
Chapter Twelve. Her Great Sin
Chapter Thirteen. Annie’s Appeal
Chapter Fourteen “It Relates to your Niece Annie.”
Chapter Fifteen. A Travelling Companion
Chapter Sixteen. A Delicious Dinner
Chapter Seventeen. Ingratiating Secretary
Chapter Eighteen. Dawn at Interlaken
Chapter Nineteen. A Profitable Transaction
Chapter Twenty. A Confession and a Friend
Chapter Twenty One. Confessions
Chapter Twenty Two. Contrary Influences
Chapter Twenty Three. A Stern Decision
Chapter Twenty Four. Home No More
Chapter Twenty Five. Very Dark Days
Chapter Twenty Six. Dawson’s Shop
Chapter Twenty Seven. A Defender
Chapter Twenty Eight. Tilda Freeman
Chapter Twenty Nine. From Darkness to Light
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Priscilla, when she left the girls’ special sitting-room, went out into the grounds. She saw a group of her young companions standing on the lawn. She was, on the whole, a favourite in the school, particularly with the younger girls, for she was gentle and good-natured, often helping them with their studies and sympathising with their small sorrows. But now she avoided her companions, and going to a shrubbery at one side of the grounds, paced up and down a shady walk.
Priscilla was very ambitious, and the letter she had received was the end of everything. She was an only child. Her father was in India, her mother dead. She was left under the care of an uncle, her mother’s brother, a rough, fairly good-natured, but utterly unsympathetic person. Priscilla’s father was a clerk, with only a very small salary, in one of the Government Houses at Madras. He could do little more than support himself, and Priscilla was therefore left to the care of Uncle Josiah. It was he who paid for her schooling, who received her during the holidays, who gave her what clothes she possessed – in short, who supplied what he considered her every want.
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“And beat Priscilla?”
“Oh, Priscilla would not be in it if Mabel chose to exercise her powers. But the fact is, she is terribly afraid of your all finding her out. You won’t breathe what I have told you to a living soul, will you, Connie?”
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