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Title: Rose in Bloom
A Sequel to "Eight Cousins"

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Posting Date: December 31, 2008 [EBook #2804]
Release Date: September, 2001

Language: English

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ROSE IN BLOOM

A Sequel to "Eight Cousins"

By Louisa May Alcott

Preface

As authors may be supposed to know better than anyone else what they
intended to do when writing a book, I beg leave to say that there is
no moral to this story. Rose is not designed for a model girl, and the
Sequel was simply written in fulfillment of a promise, hoping to afford
some amusement, and perhaps here and there a helpful hint, to other
roses getting ready to bloom.

L. M. Alcott

September 1876

Contents

Chapter 1. Coming Home
Chapter 2. Old Friends with New Faces
Chapter 3. Miss Campbell
Chapter 4. Thorns Among the Roses
Chapter 5. Prince Charming
Chapter 6. Polishing Mac
Chapter 7. Phebe
Chapter 8. Breakers Ahead
Chapter 9. New Year's Calls
Chapter 10. The Sad and Sober Part
Chapter 11. Small Temptations
Chapter 12. At Kitty's Ball
Chapter 13. Both Sides
Chapter 14. Aunt Clara's Plan
Chapter 15. Alas for Charlie!
Chapter 16. Good Works
Chapter 17. Among the Haycocks
Chapter 18. Which Was It?
Chapter 19. Behind the Fountain
Chapter 20. What Mac Did
Chapter 21. How Phebe Earned Her Welcome
Chapter 22. Short and Sweet

Chapter 1 COMING HOME

Three young men stood together on a wharf one bright October day
awaiting the arrival of an ocean steamer with an impatience which found
a vent in lively skirmishes with a small lad, who pervaded the premises
like a will-o'-the-wisp and afforded much amusement to the other groups
assembled there.

"They are the Campbells, waiting for their cousin, who has been abroad
several years with her uncle, the doctor," whispered one lady to another
as the handsomest of the young men to