The Third Miss St Quentin
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Molesworth Mrs.. The Third Miss St Quentin
Chapter One. Six Years Old
Chapter Two. Eleven Years After
Chapter Three “It is Really Ella.”
Chapter Four. Back in the Nursery
Chapter Five. Ermine’s Inspiration
Chapter Six. Lady Cheynes at Luncheon
Chapter Seven. An Invitation
Chapter Eight. Left Behind
Chapter Nine. Too Good to be True
Chapter Ten. An Old-World Shoe
Chapter Eleven. After the Ball
Chapter Twelve. Smuts
Chapter Thirteen. Ermine Misses the Fun
Chapter Fourteen. Differences of Opinion
Chapter Fifteen. Sir Philip Burns his Fingers
Chapter Sixteen. Out in the Cold
Chapter Seventeen. Ella Overhears
Chapter Eighteen. A Decided Step
Chapter Nineteen “A Marriage is Arranged.”
Chapter Twenty “Having It Out.”
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Summer, not spring now. But the same garden and the same people in it – three of them, that is to say, little chance though there might be at the first glance, of our recognising them.
They were sitting together on the lawn – the two sisters Madelene and Ermine and their cousin Philip. They were less changed than he perhaps – Madelene especially, for she had always been tall, and at fourteen had looked older than her years, whereas now at five-and-twenty one could scarcely have believed her to be as much. She had fulfilled the promise of her girlhood for she was an undoubtedly beautiful woman, though to those who knew her but superficially, she might have seemed wanting in animation, for she was quiet almost to coldness, thoughtful and self-controlled, weighing well her words before she spoke and slow in making up her mind to any decision.
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“Next month,” Madelene replied.
“Do you think she feels it very much – the leaving her aunt, and coming among strangers as it were?” he asked.
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