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Title: Pixie O'Shaughnessy

Author: Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

Illustrator: W.H.C. Groome

Release Date: April 16, 2007 [EBook #21101]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Pixie O'Shaughnessy

by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
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This is an absolutely delightful book. Pixie is a totally unique
character! Her mother had died and had left what money she had for
Pixie's education. The family live in a tumble-down old castle in
Ireland, and are all and each totally eccentric, in an Irish kind of
way. Pixies and her father travel to London, for she is to go to a
school for girls in the London suburbs. Suddenly her father realises
what a shabby little thing she is. Furthermore she has a very strong
Irish brogue. So how does she get on with the other girls. Famously,
in the end, but there were a few set-backs.

There is a very strongly written episode in the second half of the book,
where Pixie takes the blame for the loss of a perfume-bottle that had
been given to one of the mistresses by an old and beloved friend.
Everything points to Pixie being the culprit. She actually knows who
did it, but somehow had given her word that she wouldn't give the other
girl away. Pixie is punished severely, not only for having done the
deed, as generally assumed, but also for refusing to talk about it.
Could any of us show such strength of character? There are several
sequels to this book, but though good, they are mere sequels. The
inspiration that went into this book is unsurpassable. N.H.
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PIXIE O'SHAUGHNESSY

BY MRS GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY

CHAPTER ONE.

THE UGLY DUCKLING.

Pixie O'Shaughnessy was at once the joy and terror of the school. It
had been a quiet, well-conducted seminary before her time, or it seemed
so, at least, looking back after the arrival of the wild Irish tornado,
before whose pranks the mild mischief of t