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Title: Mary Cary
"Frequently Martha"

Author: Kate Langley Bosher

Release Date: April 6, 2005 [EBook #15571]

Language: English

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MARY CARY
_"FREQUENTLY MARTHA"_

BY
Kate Langley Bosher

FRONTISPIECE BY
FRANCES ROGERS

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Published By Arrangement With Harper & Brothers

COPYRIGHT, 1910 BY HARPER & BROTHERS
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO
VIRGINIA

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I. AN UNTHANKFUL ORPHAN 1
II. THE COMING OF MISS KATHERINE 14
III. MARY, FREQUENTLY MARTHA 27
IV. THE STEPPED-ON AND THE STEPPERS 39
V. "HERE COMES THE BRIDE!" 50
VI. "MY LADY OF THE LOVELY HEART" 61
VII. "STERILIZED AND FERTILIZED" 70
VIII. MARY CARY'S BUSINESS 75
IX. LOVE IS BEST 85
X. THE REAGAN BALL 97
XI. FINDING OUT 103
XII. A TRUE MIRACLE 120
XIII. HIS COMING 133
XIV. THE HURT OF HAPPINESS 141
XV. A REAL WEDDING 155

MARY CARY

I

AN UNTHANKFUL ORPHAN

My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You
may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orphans are
sure enough children, and real much like the kind that have Mothers and
Fathers; but though