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Title: The Privet Hedge

Author: J. E. Buckrose

Release Date: January 17, 2008 [EBook #24333]

Language: English

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The Privet Hedge

By

J. E. BUCKROSE

[Transcriber's note: J. E. Buckrose is the pseudonym for Annie Edith
Jameson.]

By the Same Author

THE HOUSE WITH THE GOLDEN WINDOWS
YOUNG HEARTS
THE GIRL IN FANCY DRESS
MARRIAGE WHILE YOU WAIT
THE GOSSIP SHOP
THE SILENT LEGION
THE TALE OF MR. TUBBS
THE MATCHMAKERS
THE ROUND-ABOUT
DOWN OUR STREET
A LITTLE GREEN WORLD
BECAUSE OF JANE
LOVE IN A LITTLE TOWN
THE GREY SHEPHERD

Hodder and Stoughton Limited

London

1921

Contents

CHAP.

I THE COTTAGE
II CAROLINE
III THE PROMENADE
IV THE THREE MEN
V THE DANCE ON THE PROMENADE
VI MORNING CALLS
VII SEA-ROKE
VIII THE HEIGHT OF THE SEASON
IX WEDDING CLOTHES
X SUNDAY NIGHT
XI THE GALA
XII THE END OF THE GALA
XIII NEXT MORNING
XIV THE CLIFF TOP
XV THE CINEMA
XVI NEW-COMERS
XVII THE BENEFIT CONCERT
XVIII UPROOTING
XIX A WINDY MORNING
XX LEVELLING
XXI ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER
XXII MORNING
XXIII ON THE SHORE

_Chapter I_

_The Cottage_

At the far end of Thorhaven towards the north was a little square house
surrounded by a privet hedge. It had a green door under a sort of
wooden canopy with two flat windows on either side, and seemed to stand
there defying the rows and rows of terraces, avenues and meanish
semi-detached villas which were creeping up to it. Behind lay the flat
fields under a wide sky just as they had lain for centuries, with the
gulls screaming across them inland from the mud cliffs, and so the
cottage formed a sort of outpost, facing alone the hordes of
jerry-built houses which threatened to sweep on and surround it.

The ladies who lived at the Cottage had once been nicknamed the Misses
Canute--which showed how plainly all this could be seen, as a sort of
symbol