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Title: The Girls and I
A Veracious History

Author: Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth

Illustrator: L. Leslie Brooke

Release Date: January 18, 2010 [EBook #31007]

Language: English

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THE GIRLS AND I

[Illustration: 'We ran over the fields by a short cut to a stile on to
the road, where we could see her pass, and there we shouted out again
all our messages.'--c. xi. p. 168.]

THE GIRLS AND I: A
Veracious History

[Illustration]

BY MRS MOLESWORTH

Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke

London Macmillan & Co.
MDCCCXCII

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I OURSELVES 1

CHAPTER II THE DIAMOND ORNAMENT 16

CHAPTER III WORK FOR THE TOWN-CRIER 30

CHAPTER IV AT THE DANCING CLASS 46

CHAPTER V RODNEY SQUARE 63

CHAPTER VI THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW 79

CHAPTER VII FOUR 'IF'S' AND A COINCIDENCE 95

CHAPTER VIII MOSSMOOR FARM 110

CHAPTER IXSPYING THE LAND 125

CHAPTER X A LONG AGO ADVENTURE 140

CHAPTER XI MISCHIEF IN THE AIR 157

CHAPTER XII MISS CROSS-AT-FIRST'S FUR CAPE 173

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

'JACK, DO HELP ME TO FASTEN THIS BRACELET' 24

'I'D GIVE ANYTHING, I'D ALMOST GIVE MYSELF, TO FIND IT' 48

'THE DOOR OPENED A LITTLE WIDER, AND TWO FACES APPEARED' 74

'I JUST STOOD STILL ... AND LOOKED WELL ROUND AT THE VIEW AND
EVERYTHING' 130

'HER GRANDMOT