Hildegarde's Home

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Richards Laura Elizabeth Howe. Hildegarde's Home

CHAPTER I. THE HOME ITSELF

CHAPTER II. A DISH OF GOSSIP

CHAPTER III. MORNING HOURS

CHAPTER IV. A WALK AND AN ADVENTURE

CHAPTER V. UNCLE AND NEPHEW

CHAPTER VI. COUSIN JACK

CHAPTER VII. MISS AGATHA'S CABINET

CHAPTER VIII. THE POPLARS

CHAPTER IX. THE COUSINS

CHAPTER X. BONNY SIR HUGH

CHAPTER XI. A CALL AND A CONSPIRACY

CHAPTER XII. THE SECOND ACT

CHAPTER XIII. A PICNIC

CHAPTER XIV. OVER THE JAM-POTS

CHAPTER XV. AT THE BROWN COTTAGE

CHAPTER XVI. GOOD-BY!

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The evening was too lovely to spend in the house, so Mrs. Grahame and Hildegarde went from the tea-table out on the verandah, where some low, comfortable straw chairs were already placed. It was June, and the air was full of the scent of roses, though there were none in sight. There was no moon, but it was hardly missed, so brilliant were the stars, flashing their golden light down through the elm-branches.

They sat for some time, enjoying the quiet beauty of the night. Then – "I think we shall be happy here, dear!" said Hildegarde softly. "It feels like home already."

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The girl flushed rosy red. "I am glad," she said softly. "And she died young, you say? Miss Hester, I mean."

"At twenty-two or three," assented her mother. "It was consumption, I believe. Cousin Wealthy Bond once told me that Hester had some sad love affair, but I know nothing more about it. I do know, however, that Uncle Aytoun (he was the only brother, you know, and spent much of his life at sea), I do know that he was desperately in love with dear Cousin Wealthy herself."

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