A Garden of Girls; Or, Famous Schoolgirls of Former Days

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Thomas Mrs. Concannon. A Garden of Girls; Or, Famous Schoolgirls of Former Days

A Garden of Girls; Or, Famous Schoolgirls of Former Days

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INTRODUCTION

A Garden of Girls

DARLUGDACHA

Part I.—The Orphaning of Darlugdacha

Part II.—The Fostering of Darlugdacha

SAINT ELIZABETH

Part I.—“A Star in the East.”

Part II.—On the Wartburg

CECILIA GONZAGA

Part I.—A Dominican Educationist

Part II.—La Casa Giocosa

MARGARET MORE

Part I

Part II

MARIE JEANNE D’AUMALE

Part I

Part II

Two Schoolgirl Diarists of the Eighteenth Century

I.—HÉLÈNE MASSALSKI

II.—ANNA GREEN WINSLOW

PAMELA AT BELLECHASSE

MARJORIE FLEMING

Footnote

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Thomas Mrs. Concannon

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Happy Darlugdacha, her small arms round Bainidhe’s white neck, her small hand alternately stroking Bainidhe’s nose, or pulling her red ear, was welcoming her restored darling, while Bainidhe was lowing with contentment, and trying to tell how clever she had been, and Kinnia was away with Blathnata in the kitchen, preparing a comfortable meal for the two poor lepers. At that moment the tinkling of cow-bells was heard, and Brigid came in sight, driving her cattle across the plain.

The lepers could not await her coming. They were off to meet her like two flashes of lightning. And presently, over the lowing of the cattle and the tinkling of the cow-bells, and the joyous barking of the “cubuachaill” (i.e., “dog-cowherd,” sheep-dog), Darlugdacha could hear their hoarse voices telling Brigid their story.

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