Sisters
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North Grace May. Sisters
CHAPTER I. HOW IT BEGAN
CHAPTER II. JENNY
CHAPTER III. FORLORN ETTA
CHAPTER IV. A PITIFUL PLIGHT
CHAPTER V. FRIENDS IN NEED
CHAPTER VI. WANTED, A WAITRESS
CHAPTER VII. JENNY’S TEACHER
CHAPTER VIII. AN ADVENTURE FILLED DAY
CHAPTER IX. AN OLD FRIEND APPEARS
CHAPTER X. BROTHER AND SISTER
CHAPTER XI. VIEWS AND REVIEWS
CHAPTER XII. PLOTS AND PLAYS
CHAPTER XIII. FERNS AND FRIENDS
CHAPTER XIV. DEAREST DESIRES
CHAPTER XV. PEERS OR PIGS
CHAPTER XVI. GOOD NEWS
CHAPTER XVII. PRIDE MEETS PRIDE
CHAPTER XVIII. A NEW EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER XIX. A WELCOME GUEST
CHAPTER XX. INGRATITUDE PERSONIFIED
CHAPTER XXI. A SECOND MEETING
CHAPTER XXII. REVELATIONS AND REGRETS
CHAPTER XXIII. MOTHER AND SON
CHAPTER XXIV. HAROLD AND CHARLES
CHAPTER XXV. A JOLLY PLAN
CHAPTER XXVI. A RUSTIC CABIN
CHAPTER XXVII. FUN AS FARMERS
CHAPTER XXVIII. A DIFFICULT PROMISE
CHAPTER XXIX. THE HAUGHTY GWYNETTE
CHAPTER XXX. GWYN’S AWAKENING
CHAPTER XXXI. CONFLICTING EMOTIONS
CHAPTER XXXII. THREE GIRLS
CHAPTER XXXIII. GWYNETTE’S CHOICE
CHAPTER XXXIV. AN AGREEABLE SURPRISE
CHAPTER XXXV. A BIRTHDAY CAKE
CHAPTER XXXVI. SISTERS
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Susan Warner turned to beam a welcome at the apparition standing in the open door of the kitchen. With the sun back of her, shining through the folds of her yellow muslin dress and glinting through her light, wavy brown hair, the girl did indeed look like a sprite of the springtime, and, to add to the picture, she held a branch, sweet with apricot blossoms.
“Greetings, Granny Sue!” she called gayly. “This is churning day, isn’t it?”
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The old woman stared at her spouse as one spellbound. When she spoke her voice sounded strained and unnatural. “Si Warner, do yo’ mean to tell me our Jenny has gone to fetch eggs for her very own sister an’ her friends? They’re likely to meet up wi’ each other now, arter all these years, an’ neither will know who the other really is. Oh, the pity of it, that one of ’em should have all that money can buy, and the other of ’em ridin’ around peddlin’ eggs and honey.”
But the old man took a different view of the matter. “Susan,” he said, “if our gal had the pick of the two places, I reckon she’d choose stayin’ with us. I reckon she would.”
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