The Girls and I: A Veracious History

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CHAPTER I. OURSELVES

CHAPTER II. THE DIAMOND ORNAMENT

CHAPTER III. WORK FOR THE TOWN-CRIER

CHAPTER IV. AT THE DANCING CLASS

CHAPTER V. RODNEY SQUARE

CHAPTER VI. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW

CHAPTER VII. FOUR 'IF'S' AND A COINCIDENCE

CHAPTER VIII. MOSSMOOR FARM

CHAPTER IX. SPYING THE LAND

CHAPTER X. A LONG AGO ADVENTURE

CHAPTER XI. MISCHIEF IN THE AIR

CHAPTER XII. MISS CROSS-AT-FIRST'S FUR CAPE

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It was two years ago nearly; it was the end of February – no, I think it was a little way on in March. So I was only nine and a quarter, and Anne was about twelve, and all the others in proportion younger than they are now, of course. You can count their ages, if you like, though I don't know who 'you' are, or if there's ever going to be any 'you' at all. But it's the sort of thing I like to do myself when I read a story. I count all the people's ages, and the times they did things, and that things are said to have happened, and I can tell you that very often I find that authors make very stupid mistakes. I told father of this once, and I said I'd like to write and tell them. He laughed, but he called me a prig, which I didn't like, so I never have written to any of them.

That winter began early, and was very cold, but it went early too. So grandfather took it into his head to come back to England the end of February, for a bit, meaning to go on somewhere else – to Ireland, I think, where we have some relations – after he'd been in London a fortnight or so.

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'Good-night, dears,' she said. 'I haven't even time to kiss you. Father has gone down, and the carriage has been there ever so long.'

The girls called out 'good-night,' and Hebe and I ran to the top of the staircase to watch her go down. Then we went straight back to the nursery, and in a minute or two the three others came in. Maud was saying something to Anne, and Anne was laughing at her.

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