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Title: Miss Grantley's Girls
And the Stories She Told Them

Author: Thomas Archer

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MISS GRANTLEY'S GIRLS,

and

The Stories She Told Them.

by

THOMAS ARCHER,

Author of "Little Tottie," "Wayfe Summers," "Madame Prudence,"
"Strange Work," "A Fool's Paradise," &c.

Illustrated.

[Illustration: ANTOINE DISCOVERS THE MINIATURE.]

[Illustration]

London:
Blackie & Son, 49 & 50 Old Bailey, E.C.;
Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin.
1886.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. Page

I. OUR GOVERNESS, 7

II. MONDAY:--THE SILVER GOBLET, 20

III. TUESDAY:--A BABY'S HAND, 61

IV. WEDNESDAY:--A STRANGER FROM LONDON, 87

V. THURSDAY:--THE STORY OF A BOOKWORM, 109

VI. FRIDAY:--I HAVE LIVED AND LOVED, 128

VII. SATURDAY:--MISS GRANTLEY'S BROTHER, 145

[Illustration]

MISS GRANTLEY'S GIRLS,

AND THE STORIES SHE TOLD THEM.

CHAPTER I.

OUR GOVERNESS.

THERE was nothing romantic in Miss Grantley's appearance, and yet she
was the sort of person that you could not help looking at again and
again if you once saw her. She was not very young, nor was she
middle-aged--about thirty, perhaps. She was certainly not what is called
a beauty, but she was not in the least plain. She was what some people
would call "superior looking" or "rather remarkable,"