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Title: Jolly Sally Pendleton
The Wife Who Was Not a Wife

Author: Laura Jean Libbey

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Language: English

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JOLLY SALLY PENDLETON

Or

The Wife who was Not a Wife

by

LAURA JEAN LIBBEY

[Illustration: Jolly Sally Pendleton by Laura Jean Libbey]

Hart Series No. 43

Copyright 1897 by George Munro's Sons.

Published by
The Arthur Westbrook Company
Cleveland, O., U. S. A.

INDEX

CHAPTER PAGE

I. BOTH GIRLS WERE SO STUNNINGLY PRETTY, AND WORE 5
SUCH ODD, BEWITCHING COSTUMES ON THEIR TANDEM,
THAT THE PEOPLE WHO STOPPED TO WATCH THE BEAUTIES
AS THEY WHIRLED BY NICKNAMED THEM "THE HEAVENLY
TWINS."

II. IT IS ONE THING TO ADMIRE A PRETTY GIRL, QUITE 10
ANOTHER THING TO FALL IN LOVE WITH HER.

III. THE TERRIBLE WAGER AT THE GREAT RACE. 13

IV. WHICH WON? 19

V. "SHALL WE BREAK THIS BETROTHAL, THAT WAS MADE ONLY 23
IN FUN?"

VI. THE WAY OF WOMEN THE WHOLE WORLD OVER. 26

VII. BERNARDINE. 31

VIII. "OH, I AM SO GLAD THAT YOU HAVE COME, DOCTOR!" 36

IX. "WHAT A LONELY LIFE FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL YOUNG 38
GIRL!"

X. WHAT IS LIFE WITHOUT LOVE? 40

XI. A SHADOW DARKENS THE PEACEFUL HOME OF THE 45
BASKET-MAKER.

XII. "YOU ARE FALSE AS YOU ARE FAIR, BERNARDINE!" 48

XIII. HE WISHED HE COULD TELL SOME ONE HIS UNFORTUNATE 52
LOVE STORY.

XIV. "HAVE I BROKEN YOUR HEART, MY DARLING?" 58

XV. "I LOVE YOU! I CAN NOT KEE