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Title: Patty's Success

Author: Carolyn Wells

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Language: English

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PATTY'S SUCCESS

by

CAROLYN WELLS

Author Of
Two Little Women Series,
The Marjorie Series, Etc.

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York

Copyright, 1910
by Dodd, Mead and Company

Printed in U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I Welcome Home 9
II An Advance Christmas Gift 23
III The Day Before Christmas 36
IV A Splendid Tree 50
V Skating and Dancing 65
VI A Fair Proposition 80
VII Department G 93
VIII Embroidered Blossoms 109
IX Slips and Sleeves 124
X The Clever Goldfish 139
XI A Busy Morning 154
XII Three Hats 169
XIII The Thursday Club 181
XIV Mrs. Van Reypen 197
XV Persistent Philip 211
XVI An Invitation Declined 227
XVII The Road to Success 243
XVIII Home Again 257
XIX Christine Comes 271
XX A Satisfactory Conclusion 284

PATTY'S SUCCESS

CHAPTER I

WELCOME HOME

"I do think waiting for a steamer is the horridest, pokiest performance
in the world! You never know when they're coming, no matter how much they
sight them and signal them and wireless them!"

Mrs. Allen was not pettish, and she spoke half laughingly, but she was
wearied with her long wait for the _Mauretania_, in which she expected
her daughter, Nan, and, incidentally, Mr. Fairfield and Patty.

"There, there, my dear," said her husband, soothingly, "I think it will
soon arrive now."

"I think so, too," declared Kenneth Harper, who was looking down the
river through field-glasses. "I'm just sure