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Title: Bosom Friends
A Seaside Story

Author: Angela Brazil

Illustrator: Jenny Wylie

Release Date: August 9, 2010 [EBook #33390]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Bosom Friends
A Seaside Story

[Illustration: The namesakes (page 48).]

By ANGELA BRAZIL

Bosom Friends
A Seaside Story

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, LTD.
LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN AT
THE PRESS OF THE PUBLISHERS.

_CONTENTS._

I. Fellow-travellers 5

II. Mrs. Stewart's Letter 21

III. A Meeting on the Sands 33

IV. The Sea Urchins' Club 48

V. A Hot Friendship 60

VI. On the Cliffs 75

VII. The "Stormy Petrel" 87

VIII. Cross-purposes 108

IX. Silversands Tower 119

X. Wild Maidenhair 132

XI. The Island 144

XII. A First Quarrel 158

XIII. Reading the Runes 173

XIV. A Wet Day 187

XV. Tea with Mr. Binks 201

XVI. Belle's New Friend 217

XVII. The Chase 231

XVIII. Good-bye 243

BOSOM FRIENDS.

CHAPTER I.

FELLOW-TRAVELLERS.

"Say, is it fate that has flung us together,
We who from life's varied pathways thus meet?"

It was a broiling day at the end of July, and the railway station at
Tiverton Junction was crowded with passengers. Porters wheeling great
truckfuls of luggage strove to force a way along the thronged platform,
anxious mothers held restless children firmly by the hand, harassed
fathers sought to pack their families into already overflowing
compartments, excited cyclists were endeavouring to disentangle their
machines from among the piles of boxes and portmanteaus, a circus and a
theat