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Title: A Popular Schoolgirl

Author: Angela Brazil

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Language: English

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A POPULAR SCHOOLGIRL

by

ANGELA BRAZIL

Illustrated by Balliol Salmon

New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers
Copyright, 1920, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
All Rights Reserved
First published in the United States of America, 1921

[Illustration: UNDER THE LANTERNS _Chapter XX_]

CONTENTS

I. The End of the Holidays

II. Opening Day

III. Wynch-on-the-Wold

IV. Intruder Bess

V. The Fifth-form Fete

VI. The School Parliament

VII. Hockey

VIII. An Unpleasant Experience

IX. A Hostel Frolic

X. The Whispering Stones

XI. On Strike

XII. The Rainbow League

XIII. Quenrede Comes Out

XIV. The Peep-hole

XV. Brotherly Breezes

XVI. An Easter Pilgrimage

XVII. The Rivals

XVIII. Bess at Home

XIX. The Nun's Walk

XX. Under the Lanterns

XXI. The Abbey Recital

Illustrations

Under the Lanterns

"Let's Call ourselves the Foursome League"

A Friend in Need

"You look _nice_--you do, _really_, with your hair down"

"You may think you know everything, Bess Haselford, but you don't know
this!"

A Tall Figure, clothed in some White Garment, was gliding towards them

A POPULAR SCHOOLGIRL

CHAPTER I

The End of the Holidays

"Ingr