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Title: Molly Brown's Orchard Home

Author: Nell Speed

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MOLLY BROWN'S ORCHARD HOME

by

NELL SPEED

Author of
"The Tucker Twins Series," "The Carter Girls Series," etc.

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers New York
Printed in U. S. A.
Copyright, 1915,
by
Hurst & Company
Printed in U. S. A.

[Illustration: Jo proved to be a singularly tactful hostess.]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. Letters

II. Bon Voyage

III. The Deep Sea

IV. What Molly Overheard

V. Paris

VI. La Marquise

VII. The Faubourg

VIII. The Opera

IX. The Postscript

X. Bohemia

XI. A Studio Tea in the Latin Quarter

XII. The Green-eyed Monster

XIII. A Julia Kean Scrape

XIV. Coals of Fire

XV. Mr. Kinsella's Indian Summer

XVI. Apple Blossom Time in Normandy

XVII. The Ghost in the Chapel

XVIII. The Prescription

XIX. Fontainebleau and What Came of It

XX. More Letters

XXI. Molly Brown's Orchard Home

Molly Brown's Orchard Home.

CHAPTER I.

LETTERS.

From Miss Molly Brown of Kentucky to Miss Nance Oldham of Vermont.

Chatsworth, Kentucky.

My dearest Nance:

Our passage to Antwerp is really engaged and in two weeks Mother
and I will be on the water. I can hardly believe it is I, Molly
Brown, about to have this "great adventure." That is what Mother
and I cal