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Title: Miss Prudence
A Story of Two Girls' Lives.

Author: Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin

Release Date: November 27, 2003 [EBook #10322]

Language: English

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MISS PRUDENCE

A STORY OF TWO GIRLS' LIVES

By JENNIE M. DRINKWATER

1883

"We are not to lead events but to follow them."--_Epictetus_.

CONTENTS

CHAP

I. AFTER SCHOOL

II. EVANGELIST

III. WHAT "DESULTORY" MEANS

IV. A RIDE, A WALK, A TALK, AND A TUMBLE

V. TWO PROMISES

VI. MARJORIE ASLEEP AND AWAKE

VII. UNDER THE APPLE-TREE

VIII. BISCUITS AND OTHER THINGS

IX. JOHN HOLMES

X. LINNET

XI. GRANDMOTHER

XII. A BUDGET OF LETTERS

XIII. A WEDDING DAY

XIV. A TALK AND ANOTHER TALK

XV. JEROMA

XVI. MAPLE STREET

XVII. MORRIS

XVIII. ONE DAY

XIX. A STORY THAT WAS NOT VERY SAD

XX. "HEIRS TOGETHER"

XXI. MORRIS AGAIN

XXII. TIDINGS

XXIII. GOD'S LOVE

XXIV. JUST AS IT OUGHT TO BE

XXV. THE WILL OF GOD

XXVI. MARJORIE'S MOTHER

XXVII. ANOTHER WALK AND ANOTHER TALE

XXVIII. THE LINNET

XXIX. ONE NIGHT

XXX. THE COSEY CORNER

XXXI. AND WHAT ELSE?

MISS PRUDENCE.

I.

AFTER SCHOOL.

"Our content is our best having."--_Shakespeare_.

Nobody had ever told Marjorie that she was, as somebody says we all
are, three people,--the Marjorie she knew herself, the Marjorie other
people knew, and the Marjorie God knew. It was a "bother" sometimes to
be the Marjorie she knew herself, and she had never guessed there was
another Marjorie for other people to know, and the Marjorie God knew
and understood she did not learn much abo