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Title: Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed

Author: Edna Ferber

Posting Date: October 1, 2008 [EBook #1602]
Release Date: January, 1999

Language: English

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DAWN O'HARA

THE GIRL WHO LAUGHED

By Edna Ferber

TO MY DEAR MOTHER
WHO FREQUENTLY INTERRUPTS
AND TO
MY SISTER FANNIE
WHO SAYS "SH-SH-SH!" OUTSIDE MY DOOR

CONTENTS

I THE SMASH-UP
II MOSTLY EGGS
III GOOD As NEW
IV DAWN DEVELOPS A HEIMWEH
V THE ABSURD BECOMES SERIOUS
VI STEEPED IN GERMAN
VII BLACKIE'S PHILOSOPHY
VIII KAFFEE AND KAFFEEKUCHEN
IX THE LADY FROM VIENNA
X A TRAGEDY OF GOWNS
XI VON GERHARD SPEAKS
XII BENNIE THE CONSOLER
XIII THE TEST
XIV BENNIE AND THE CHARMING OLD MAID
XV FAREWELL TO KNAPFS'
XVI JUNE MOONLIGHT, AND A NEW BOARDING HOUSE
XVII THE SHADOW OF TERROR
XVIII PETER ORME
XIX A TURN OF THE WHEEL
XX BLACKIE'S VACATION COMES
XXI HAPPINESS

DAWN O'HARA

CHAPTER I. THE SMASH-UP

There are a number of things that are pleasanter than being sick in a
New York boarding-house when one's nearest dearest is a married sister
up in far-away Michigan.

Some one must have been very kind, for there were doctors, and a
blue-and-white striped nurse, and bottles and things. There was even
a vase of perky carnations--scarlet ones. I discovered that they had a
trick of nodding their heads, saucily. The discovery did not appear to
surprise me.

"Howdy-do!" said I aloud to the fattest and reddest carnation that
overtopped all the rest. "How in the world did you get in here?"

The striped nurse (I hadn't noticed her before) rose from some corner
and came swiftly over to my bedside, taking my wrist between her
fingers.

"I'm very well, thank you," she said, smiling, "and I came in at the