Three Girls from School

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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